After new publications regarding the blasting of gas pipelines Nord Streamthe Kremlin said today that it is studying all information about the explosions that destroyed the pipelines, claiming that a state or group of states may have blown them up, with former Russian president and current deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev even saying that there is no reason for Moscow not to destroy its enemies’ undersea communications cables, given the West’s complicity, it said, in blowing up the pipelines.

In September 2022, a series of unexplained undersea explosions caused rifts in the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines connecting Russia and Germany across the Baltic Sea.

Numerous scenarios – many of them conflicting – about what exactly it means have been advanced in many publications in the last months, without, however, until today the case has been clarified.

Western governments have denied any involvement in the explosions. Some US and European officials initially suggested that Russia was responsible, a version dismissed as foolish by President Vladimir Putin.

Russia has repeatedly claimed that the West – and particularly the US and Britain – were behind the blasts. The Kremlin has repeatedly said the world needs to know the truth about what happened, calling for an international investigation.

US newspapers including the Washington Post, New York Times and Wall Street Journal reported that the CIA knew of a Ukrainian plot to attack the pipelines. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has denied Kiev’s involvement in blowing up the pipelines.

In February, Pulitzer Prize-winning American veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published an extensive exposé report, according to which the detonation of the explosives that disabled the pipelines was organized at the behest of US President Joe Biden. The White House dismissed this as “completely false and complete fiction”. The Kremlin said the information was worth investigating.

Asked today about a Wall Street Journal report yesterday that the CIA had warned Ukraine not to destroy Nord Stream, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that a recent “barrage” of media coverage of the explosions may have been planned. to distract from those who are really in charge.

“We have repeatedly said that what happened to Nord Stream could only have been done by the special services of a state,” Peskov said. “Only one country or a group of countries can be behind this terrorist attack.”

For his part, Dmitry Medvedev, known for his incendiary rhetoric, said in a post on Telegram: “If we continue from the proven complicity of Western countries in blowing up the Nord Stream, then we have no limitation – not even a moral one – to prevents us from destroying our enemies’ submarine cable communications.”

Undersea cables crossing the world’s oceans have become the arteries of global communications. Their importance has made them the focus of growing geopolitical competition between China and Russia on the one hand and the United States and its Western allies on the other.

NATO’s intelligence chief warned in May that Russia might sabotage undersea cables to punish the West for supporting Ukraine.