Nord Stream: U.S. Denies Claim That Truss Sent Blinken 'It's Done' Text After Blast
Nord Stream: U.S. Denies Claim That Truss Sent Blinken 'It's Done' Text After Blast
The attack on the Nord Stream pipelines were seen as an escalation in the energy war between the West and Russia.
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The U.S. State Department rejected the claim that Liz Truss, the former British prime minister, text messaged Secretary of State Antony Blinken ‘It’s done’ shortly after the attacks on the Nord Stream.
Ned Price, the spokesman from the State Department, said in a statement that Russia’s “baseless accusations against the United Kingdom, and before that the United States, are just another attempt to distract from their brutal war against Ukraine.”
The statement continued, “These ridiculous claims have no factual basis. Russia has a long history of spreading disinformation and it is doing so again here.”
Kim Dotcom, a tech entrepreneur who lives in New Zealand, took to Twitter on 30 October - about a month after the attacks - to claim that the Russians learned that the UK blew up the pipelines through Truss’s iPhone message to Blinken “before anybody else knew.”
“iCloud admin access rocks!” he posted.
Dotcom downplayed reports in British media at the time that Truss’s phone was hacked and said “Russia and China have sophisticated cyber units, too. The funny thing is Gov’t officials with top security clearance still prefer using iPhones over their NSA & GCHQ issued encrypted shit-phones.”
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Dotcom did not respond to a message from The Trends Journal seeking clarification.
Social media users noted that Dotcom’s tweets were light on specifics and left many questions unanswered. One posted, “What makes you sure that ‘it's done’ refers to the explosion and how would she know the exact minute the explosion happened to text the US Sec of State? Also how do YOU know the exact minute that the explosion happened?”
The tweet was ignored in the Western media but picked up by international news outlets after Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, posted on Telegram, “I want to know London's answer to the following question: 'Has UK Prime Minister Liz Truss sent a message to US State Secretary Antony Blinken immediately after the explosion of the Nord Stream pipeline saying 'It’s done?”
The UK government did not immediately respond to an email inquiry.
The Kremlin has denied any involvement in the explosions, and has blamed the British navy for the attacks.
“According to available information, representatives of this unit of the British Navy took part in the planning, provision and implementation of a terrorist attack in the Baltic Sea on 26 September this year – blowing up the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines,” the Kremlin said, according to Energy Voice.
Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said, Russian intelligence has data indicating that British military specialists were directing and coordinating the attack.
“There is evidence that Britain is involved in sabotage, in a terrorist attack on vital energy infrastructure, not just Russian, but international,” he said.
The UK responded last month: “To detract from their disastrous handling of the illegal invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defence is resorting to peddling false claims of an epic scale. This invented story, says more about arguments going on inside the Russian government than it does about the West.”