General view of a moment of silence for former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright during the United Nations Security Council meeting, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., March 23, 2022. REUTERS/Mike Segar REFILE - CORRECTING MEETING
Russia has requested a UN Security Council meeting to be held following the report from investigative journalist Seymour Hersh that alleged the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines were bombed at the order of President Biden.
“In light of new information regarding the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, we have requested a UN Security Council meeting be held on February 22, at 3:00 pm New York time,” Dmitry Polyansky, Russia’s first deputy representative to the UN, wrote on Telegram on Wednesday.
Also on Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that foreign media outlets should look into the details of Hersh’s report.
“I urge you perhaps to carry out such probes because no one is banning you from conducting a journalistic investigation,” Lavrov said, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
Hersh’s report said that US Navy divers planted explosives on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines during NATO drills in the Baltic Sea in June 2022.
Hersh said Norway cooperated with the US on the operation and that a Norwegian spy plane detonated the explosives months after they were planted on September 26, 2022.
One of the most explosive allegations in the report is the fact that the Biden administration began planning how to destroy the pipeline before Russia invaded Ukraine.
For years, the US tried to stop the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline with sanctions as it would have doubled the amount of gas flowing from Russia to Germany.
The report said Washington was worried that Germany’s reliance on Russian gas could have made Berlin reluctant to supply Ukraine with money and weapons.
Source: Antiwar.com
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