The host asked Kibri if Washington was involved in the incident, as journalist Seymour Hersh writes, to which he replied: “The United States is not involved in this in any way.” There is “not a grain of truth” in Hersh’s investigation, according to Kirby.
Investigative journalist Hersh earlier published an article saying that explosive devices along the route of Russian gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea were planted by US Navy divers last summer, with the aim of support of Norwegian specialists. Hersh cited an anonymous source in his post.
It was clarified that the decision to undermine was made for more than nine months, the main purpose of the discussions was to divert suspicion from the American side.
