{"id":1840681,"date":"2023-02-09T08:05:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T13:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1840681"},"modified":"2023-02-09T08:08:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T13:08:12","slug":"russia-says-u-s-has-questions-to-answer-about-nord-stream-explosions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-says-u-s-has-questions-to-answer-about-nord-stream-explosions\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Says U.S. Has Questions to Answer About Nord Stream Explosions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-says-u-s-has-questions-to-answer-about-nord-stream-explosions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1840681&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>Russia\u2019s foreign ministry said on Wednesday the United States had questions to answer over its role in explosions on the undersea Nord Stream gas pipelines last year.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on a report published earlier on Wednesday that said the United States was involved in the explosions, Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called on the White House to comment on the \u201cfacts\u201d This was the case.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>Reuters could not verify the report by Seymour Hersh, an American investigative journalist, which alleges U.S. involvement.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>The White House said on Wednesday that Hersh\u2019s account was \u201cutterly false and complete fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moscow, without providing evidence, has repeatedly said the West was behind the explosions affecting the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines last September \u2013 multibillion-dollar infrastructure projects that carried Russian gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n<p>These allegations have been refuted by Western officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe White House must now comment on all these facts,\u201d Zakharova said in a post on her Telegram page where she summarized Hersh\u2019s main claims regarding the alleged U.S. involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators from Sweden and Denmark \u2013 in whose territorial waters the explosions occurred \u2013 have said the ruptures were a result of sabotage, but have not said who they believe was responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Russia claimed that Russia had contacted the countries \u201chave something to hide\u201d They deliberately block Russia out of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Nord Stream 2, which would have doubled the amount of gas Russia could send directly through the sea to Germany, was constructed in September 2021. It was not put into operation when Berlin canceled its certification, just days before Moscow sent its troops to Ukraine in Feb. (Reporting by Jake Cordell Editing By Gareth Jones<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article content Russia\u2019s foreign ministry said on Wednesday the United States had questions to answer over its role in explosions on the undersea Nord Stream gas pipelines last year. 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