Biden Admin Denies Involvement in Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage

WHite House National Security Council Spokesman John Kirby According to the assertion that the United States played an important role in the explosions at the coast, Nord Stream One and two gas pipelines are a “completely false story.”

Seymour Hersh is an investigative journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize and was a former New Yorker Staff writer, published information in a Substack post On February 8, U.S. Navy divers claimed that the Nord Stream pipeline explosions were conducted as a NATO military exercise.

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Kirby and several other White House staffers have refuted the claims.

“It is a completely false story; there is no truth to it, Shannon,” Kirby stated this to Shannon Bream, Fox News Sunday host. “Not a shred of it; it is not true. The United States, and no proxies from the United States, had anything to do with that. Nothing.”

Hersh stated that three months before the September pipeline bursts, Navy divers had placed remotely triggered explosives. This caused severe damage to Nord Stream 1 (the main gas link between Russia & the European Union). Nord Stream 2 was built in late 2021. However, it was never put online.

Speculation began to grow about the U.S.’s involvement after clips of President Joe Biden’s February 2022 comments regarding the pipeline started reentering public sphere. He hinted that the Nord Stream Pipelines would be closed.

“There will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it,” Biden said, later adding, “I promise you, we will be able to do it.”

Kirby answered Sunday’s question about whether Congress would be informed in the event of an operation similar to the one Hersh claimed. Kirby stated that the National Security Council continues its obligation to inform Congress “appropriately” Both classified and unclassified cases.

“I can tell you, now, regardless of the notification process, there was no U.S. involvement in this. None. Zero. It’s completely false,” Kirby stated.

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Officials from Sweden, Denmark, and Germany are now investigating the explosions themselves. Russia demanded the U.S. to verify that it wasn’t involved in the explosions, calling it an act defiance. “international terrorism.”

“We qualify the incident as an act of international terrorism that requires a comprehensive and independent investigation,” Igor Girenko, the Russian Embassy’s spokesperson, was previously In a statement