China talks about the shocking report related to the Nord Stream pipeline

Russia’s RT station said that after journalist Seymour Hersh published a report claiming that the US was behind the September 2022 attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chinese delivery says Washington owes the world an explanation.

Responding to a question from Dragon TV on February 10, Ms. Mao Ning said: “We have noted the reports” and added that the two Nord Stream pipelines (1 and 2) are “transnational infrastructure”. important countries”, their destruction has had serious economic and environmental impacts.

“If (journalist) Hersh is telling the truth then what he revealed is clearly unacceptable and must be answered. The US owes the world a responsible explanation,” the Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said.

On the Russian side, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on February 9 that it was necessary to conduct an investigation after it was reported that the US was involved in explosions that damaged the Eastern Stream gas pipelines. North last year.

Speaking to the press, Peskov said that attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines should not be ignored without investigating and punishing those involved.

According to Peskov, Russia has repeatedly attempted to participate in the investigation of terrorist attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, but have been rejected. Russia has never been allowed to participate in the international investigation into this incident. However, the relevant Russian agencies still “put this issue on the agenda”.

Previously, in a new personal blog article published on Substack on February 8, Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, claimed that the Nord Stream gas pipelines had been breached by the US. canceled last September.

Hersh cited a source with direct knowledge of the operational plan and said that explosives were placed in the gas pipelines by US Navy divers in June 2022 under the guise of exercise BALTOPS 22. of NATO.

Three months later, the bomb was detonated on September 26, 2022 by a remote signal sent by an sonar sonar. According to reports, the buoy was dropped by a Norwegian Navy P8 surveillance plane near the Nord Stream pipeline.

On February 8, the US denied the shocking revelation of journalist Seymour Hersh.

National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said Hersh’s information was “completely fictional”.

In a similar move, a spokesman for the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) called these reports “completely untrue”.

The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs also denied the reports of journalist Hersh.

On September 26, 2022, the operating company Nord Stream 2 AG reported a sudden sharp drop in pressure that occurred at a pipeline of the Nord Stream 2 gas line from Russia to Europe, where the gas is stored. full of technical gas during construction.

Next, the operator Nord Stream 1 also detected the same situation on both pipelines belonging to this route. Although, Nord Stream 1 stopped working at the end of August, but has been fully charged with gas.

Around the time of the gas leak, seismologists discovered two powerful explosions on September 26. One of them, with a magnitude of 2.3, was detected by dozens of monitoring stations in southern Sweden.

This discovery raises the suspicion that the Nord Stream leak was caused by vandalism. The US, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway all considered the incident to be intentional vandalism.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called the unprecedented sabotage of the pipeline an “act of international terrorism”.

Because underwater attacks are more difficult to detect, the parties have not been able to confirm a suspect in the incident. Investigations carried out by the authorities of Sweden, Denmark and Germany to date have not blamed any country or entity.