The US reiterates that Moscow is lying about its alleged responsibility for the Nord Stream explosions

MADRID, 16 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The United States government has reiterated that Russia lies about the alleged US responsibility in the explosions that took place in the Nord Stream gas pipeline, after the Kremlin has requested a meeting of the UN Security Council after the publication of a new investigation .

The spokesman for the US State Department, Ned Price, has indicated that what Moscow says "is nothing more than a lie": "It is pure disinformation that the United States was behind what happened with Nord Stream 2," he remarked.

"This is the message that we have consistently delivered in the face of these lies being parroted by Russian officials, and we will deliver it again if necessary in any forum," Price said.

When asked if the United Nations should play any role in the investigation of the incidents, the spokesman pointed out that "this explosion did not occur on American soil", so the partners, where the explosion occurred, are what should "speak on the appropriate investigative mechanisms".

Russia's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, Dimitri Polianski, announced Wednesday that Moscow had requested a meeting of the UN Security Council for February 22 to address the explosions at the Nord Stream gas pipeline last month. of September.

In a message released on his official Telegram channel, Polianski has detailed that the meeting has been requested "in light of the new information about the detonation in the gas pipeline", thus alluding to the investigation published by the journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh, who pointed directly to the United States as being behind the sabotage.

According to Hersh, divers from the United States Navy would have been responsible for the alleged sabotage, since they would have placed explosives during the 'Baltops 22' maneuvers of the Atlantic Alliance. "Three months later they destroyed three of the four branches of the gas pipeline," the journalist said.

On September 26, Nord Stream 2 AG, operator of the Russian gas pipeline of the same name, announced a gas leak due to unknown causes in one of the two infrastructure pipelines near the Danish island of Bornholm. Subsequently, two branches of the parallel Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline were also damaged.