NATO should hold emergency summit over Nord Stream blasts, says Russia

• Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson asked NATO to convene an emergency meeting.
• US naval divers had destroyed the pipelines with explosives on President Joe Biden’s orders.
• Sweden and Denmark have decided that the pipes were deliberately blown up.

NATO should convene an emergency meeting to discuss the latest discoveries regarding the September explosions at the Nord Stream gas pipelines, according to Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova late Saturday.

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970, said in a blog post on Wednesday, citing an unnamed source, that US naval divers had destroyed the pipelines with explosives on President Joe Biden’s orders.

The White House condemned as “utterly baseless and pure fiction” the suggestion that the US was behind the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions, which transport Russian gas to Germany.

Sweden and Denmark, whose exclusive economic zones the blasts happened, have decided that the pipes were deliberately blown up, but have not stated who might be to blame.

The incident has been described as “an act of sabotage” by the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The unidentified explosions that triggered the ruptures have been blamed on the West by Moscow. Neither party has shown any evidence.

“There are more than enough facts here: the explosion of the pipeline, the presence of a motive, circumstantial evidence obtained by journalists,” Zakharova said on the Telegram messaging platform.

“So when will an emergency NATO summit meet to review the situation?”

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