{"id":266854,"date":"2023-03-26T08:04:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T08:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=266854"},"modified":"2023-03-27T07:37:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T07:37:21","slug":"putin-names-country-behind-nord-stream-blasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=266854","title":{"rendered":"Putin names country behind Nord Stream blasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RT.com \u2013 March 25, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>US intelligence agencies were most likely behind last September\u2019s sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Russia 24 TV on Saturday, adding that he agrees with the conclusions made by veteran American journalist Seymour Hersh.<\/p>\n<p>It would be <em>\u201cvery difficult\u201d<\/em> to bring the entire truth to light, the Russian president admitted in comments to journalist Pavel Zarubin in the Kremlin. Nevertheless, Putin expressed his hope that at some point in time <em>\u201cit will be finally revealed what was done and how.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Russian leader then cited Hersh, calling him <em>\u201can American journalist, who recently gained prominence in the world,\u201d<\/em> and said that he <em>\u201cconducted an investigation and \u2026 concluded that this blast was orchestrated by the US intelligence.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI fully agree with these conclusions,\u201d<\/em> Putin added. He did not elaborate on whether Russia has any evidence of its own to support this position.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Hersh published a bombshell report on the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, accusing Washington of orchestrating the attack. The US has denied responsibility. In March, Hersh went on to claim that the CIA and Germany\u2019s intelligence service, the BND, were tasked with covering up Washington\u2019s involvement by providing an alternative story to the media.<\/p>\n<p>The two intelligence services then supposedly came up with a story about an <em>\u201coff the books operation\u201d<\/em> by a <em>\u201cpro-Ukrainian group,\u201d<\/em> according to Hersh. This version was then published by several German and American media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow dismissed the reports about the Ukrainian trace behind the blasts as <em>\u201ca coordinated media hoax campaign.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/573596-putin-country-nord-stream-blasts\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadcast on Russian TV, Putin\u2019s allegations have received almost no attention from the mainstream Western media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":259406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266855,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266854\/revisions\/266855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/259406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}