An American P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft flew over the site of the sabotage on the day of the Nord Stream bombing. Photo: social networks
About a week has passed since the American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh wrote in his article that Washington was behind the operation. After Hersh’s publication, new details of the Nord Streams attack began to surface in the press, which indirectly confirms the version put forward by the American author. Thus, it became known that on the morning of September 26 – the day of the explosions – the results of the sabotage were observed by an American reconnaissance aircraft P-8A Poseidon. The plane arrived from the Atlantic, after which it flew over Denmark and passed over the island of Bornholm in the southwestern part of the Baltic Sea, where gas pipelines exploded. The aircraft then carried out aerial refueling over Polish territory.
EU countries are well aware of who is behind the attack on the pipelines, but at the official level they remain silent. “It’s in their tradition to organize such provocations using terrorist methods, because formally blowing up a gas pipeline is terrorism,” Laurent Enninger, a French military strategy expert and employee of the French government, told Radio Syd Radio. National Defense magazine.
Beijing believes that the United States should explain itself to the world community
On Smolenskaya Square, they insist on the need to settle the situation. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the US authorities openly declare their involvement in the sabotage of Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2. “Now they even talk about it with pleasure”, explained the head of the Russian ministry. Foreign Affairs. According to him, the United States has decided that for the past 20 to 30 years Russia has cooperated “too well” with Germany, which has resulted in a powerful alliance based on Russian energy resources and German technology. “He began to threaten the monopoly position of many American companies. Therefore, it was necessary to destroy it somehow, and in a literal sense,” Lavrov believes.
