“Instead of leaks, the Western regimes involved in the incident should respond to official requests from the Russian side and, at a minimum, consider elements of Hersh’s journalistic investigation, without replacing them with anonymous fakery,” Zakharova wrote.Earlier, American journalist Seymour Hersh said that American saboteurs were behind the explosions on the gas pipelines. He believes the charges were placed during the BALTOPS-2022 NATO exercises and were activated remotely using a sonar buoy dropped from a Norwegian aircraft.In late December 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the Nord Stream explosions an act of international terrorism. According to him, behind the explosions are countries interested in the transit of Russian gas exclusively through the territory of Ukraine.
