The chairman of the Russian State Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, has called for an international inquiry to investigate the facts published by an American journalist that Washington had planted explosives in the Nord Stream pipelines.
«The published facts should become the basis for an international investigation, bring Biden and his accomplices to justice, as well as pay compensation to the countries affected by the terrorist attack,» Volodin asserted in a message posted on his Telegram account.
According to the speaker of the Russian Lower House, US divers would have placed explosives in the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines «under the cover of NATO and with the support of Norway». This strategy, says Volodin, is «reminiscent» of the German Third Reich.
He also compared US President Joe Biden to former President Harry Truman: «If Truman became a criminal who used atomic weapons against civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then Biden became a terrorist who ordered the destruction of the energy infrastructure of his strategic partners».
Earlier, journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh explained on his website that those responsible for the alleged sabotage are U.S. Navy divers, who would have planted explosives during NATO’s ‘Baltops 22’ maneuvers.
According to the journalist, on September 26, a Norwegian Navy plane launched a hydroacoustic buoy which detonated the explosive devices. He explained that the decision to detonate them was taken nine months after a «secret discussion» by U.S. national security agencies.
The White House on Wednesday denied accusations that the United States was behind the explosions recorded on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines in September 2022, reiterating that it was «not involved in the explosion».
«The United States was not involved in the Nord Stream explosion,» Pentagon spokesman Garron Garn has said in a brief statement to the aforementioned newspaper, reiterating the Defense Department’s response to the same accusation in October.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
