“They are trying to divert attention from the article I wrote, which had a lot of specifics,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
Hersh drew attention to the fact that although the Ukrainian Navy can drop mines, they do not have a diving chamber.
"You have to have people who... are experts in scuba diving and experts in using the C-4... They have to... train for weeks and months... in the waters of the Baltic Sea," he added.
The emergency on three lines of the system occurred on September 26, 2022 near the Danish island of Bornholm.
According to Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, the explosives were planted by US Navy divers and subsequently activated by the Norwegian Navy.
On March 7, The New York Times published an article stating that “new intelligence” indicates the involvement of a certain “pro-Ukrainian group” in undermining the Nord Stream in the Baltic Sea.
The US National Security Council (NSC) later said it could not confirm The New York Times reports.
Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov expressed the opinion that the publications about the terrorist attacks on the Nord Streams are a coordinated stuffing.