Moscow: Recent claims that the attack on the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines may have been carried out by "pro-Ukrainian activists" have been dismissed as "nonsense" by Russian President Vladimir Putin. He made the remarks on Tuesday during a visit to an aircraft plant in the capital city of Russia's Buryatia republic, Ulan-Ude.

"I'm certain that this is total nonsense. "Only experts with the full force of a state that possesses specific technologies are capable of carrying out an explosion of this kind - of such power, at such depth," Putin told reporters.

According to media reports that surfaced last week, a mysterious "pro-Ukrainian group" may have been responsible for the explosions on the pipelines at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. According to unnamed sources cited by the New York Times, "no Americans or Britons were involved" in the operation.

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Separately, numerous German media outlets reported that the nation's investigators looking into the explosions had discovered a yacht, allegedly used for the attack, which was "apparently owned by two Ukrainians" but belonged to a Polish-based company.

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A shocking investigation by renowned American journalist Seymour Hersh, who claimed that US President Joe Biden's administration had staged the attack on the pipelines with assistance from Norway, was released shortly after the yacht reports.

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His sources claim that the explosives were placed by US Navy divers in June under the pretence of a NATO exercise and remotely detonated in September. The White House swiftly rejected the journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize's accusations, calling them "utterly false and complete fiction."