Washington: According to the Russian embassy in the US, Washington is attempting to downplay damaging information regarding the alleged involvement of its intelligence services in the explosions that damaged the Nord Stream petrol pipelines last year.

On Monday, Moscow's attempt to persuade the UN Security Council to request an impartial investigation into the September explosions that ruptured the Nord Stream pipelines connecting Russia and Germany and released petrol into the Baltic Sea failed. Officials in Russia responded angrily, and the Kremlin declared on Tuesday that it would continue to call for an international investigation.

In a statement published on its Telegram messaging service, the Russian embassy in the US claimed that Washington is doing "everything possible" to thwart "impartial efforts" to determine the circumstances surrounding the explosions.

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According to the embassy's statement translated into Russian, "We see this as an obvious attempt... to play down information from reputable journalists that is damaging for the United States about the likely direct involvement of American intelligence services."

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Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for reporting, claimed in a blog post from an unnamed source that President Joe Biden had ordered US navy divers to blow up the pipelines with explosives.

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Hersh's report was rejected by the White House as "utterly false and complete fiction." The allegations, according to Norway, are "nonsense."