(Reuters) – The Russian embassy within the U.S. mentioned on Wednesday Washington is in search of to minimize damaging details about the alleged involvement of its intelligence providers in final 12 months’s blasts that broken the Nord Stream fuel pipelines.

Moscow failed on Monday to get the U.N. Safety Council to ask for an unbiased inquiry into explosions in September that ruptured the Nord Stream pipelines connecting Russia and Germany and spewed fuel into the Baltic Sea.

Russian officers reacted angrily and the Kremlin mentioned on Tuesday it could maintain demanding a global investigation.

The Russian embassy within the U.S. mentioned in a press release posted on its Telegram messaging platform that Washington is doing “all the things potential” to forestall “neutral efforts” set up circumstances across the explosions.

“We see this as an apparent try … to minimize data from respected journalists that’s damaging for the USA concerning the probably direct involvement of American intelligence providers,” the embassy mentioned within the assertion posted in Russian.

In a February weblog submit, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh cited an unidentified supply as saying that U.S. navy divers had destroyed the pipelines with explosives on the orders of President Joe Biden.

The White Home dismissed Hersh’s report as “completely false and full fiction”. Norway mentioned the allegations have been “nonsense”.