the kremlin on thursday endorsed a blog post by the us investigative journalist seymour hersh that alleges the united states was behind the sabotage of the nord stream gas pipelines saying it should be taken seriously the selfpublished article claimed that the us navy helped norway plant explosives on the pipelines running under the baltic sea between russia and germany both washington and oslo denied the claims kremlin spokesman dmitry peskov said it was a very serious article that had a deep analysis it would be unfair not to give it attention he said unfortunately the article was not widely disseminated in the western media which cannot but cause our surprise peskov said moscow had information on the involvement of the anglosaxons in the organisation of this act of sabotage a claim russia has made repeatedly but without providing any evidence publicly western countries have blamed the september pipeline explosions on russia but moscow has accused the west of sabotage hersh an 85yearold veteran investigative journalist has in recent years been accused of spreading conspiracy theories