Hersh called the version of Russia’s involvement in the undermining of the Nord Streams “complete nonsense”

There is no logic in the version about Russia’s involvement in undermining the Nord Streams, such suspicions are “complete nonsense”, declared American journalist Seymour Hersh in an interview with the Neue Zürcher Zeitung newspaper.

“Let’s say the Russians want to destroy the pipeline. To do this, they choose Bornholm, study the area for several days and return later to plant the bomb. Why should they do it? The only explanation is that they wanted to tell the whole world “it was us!”. Complete nonsense,” he said.quote according to RIA Novosti).

The version of involvement in the incident of the Andromeda sailing yacht Hersh also considered unviable. “If you really think that a 16-meter yacht can anchor to a depth of 80 meters, land two divers and demolition men in heavy suits, with gas cylinders and a lot of C4 explosives from the stern, then I can’t help you,” he said. He.

The explosion at Nord Stream occurred on the night of September 26, 2022. Pressure dropped in both pipelines. Two subsequently discovered leaks were in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Sweden, and two more were in the Danish EEZ. Initially, Germany, Sweden and Denmark agreed to conduct a joint investigation, but this idea was later abandoned. In October 2022, Sweden announced the completion of the investigation, stating “increasing suspicions of gross sabotage”, but those responsible for what happened were not named.

February 8 Seymour Hersh published his investigation into the Nord Stream incident, in which he accused the United States and Norway of being involved in the bombing. The White House and the European Commission called this information unreliable.

A month later, Western media, including The New York Times, citing new US intelligence, reported on the possible involvement of a “pro-Ukrainian group” in the sabotage. At the same time, it was emphasized that the United States had no data on Russia’s participation in the operation. The Kremlin doubted this information and called messages by “coordinated stuffing”.

At the end of May, the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and a number of other media published investigation, according to which Andromeda, on board of which investigators had previously found traces of explosives, was rented by a company associated with a citizen of Ukraine. Earlier it became known that several people chartered the Andromeda in the German port of Rostock in September. These people could have been involved in explosions on gas pipelines, and, according to the investigation, a 20-year-old Ukrainian from the city “southeast of Kiev” was also present on the yacht.