Ukraine denies being involved in blowing up gas pipelines in the fall of 2022.
According to the Wall Street Journal President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi approved a plan developed in spring 2022 to sabotage the Nord Stream gas pipelines, but canceled the plan.
According to the newspaper’s sources, the then commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhnyi however, decided to act regardless of the president’s decision.
The Wall Street Journal bases its information on four anonymous Ukrainian sources. According to the newspaper, one of the sources is an officer who participated in the operation.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the sabotage, financed by Ukrainian businessmen, was carried out by a group of six people who in September 2022 approached the gas pipelines on a rented sailboat. There were four experienced divers on board who set the timed explosives in place.
German authorities are currently looking for a Ukrainian diver who is suspected of having participated in the sabotage.
We were warned about the plan even before the attack
There have been doubts about General Zalužnyi’s role in the Nord Stream sabotage for a long time.
The Dutch media has toldthat even before the sabotage, the Dutch military intelligence received a tip about Ukraine’s plan to blow up gas pipelines. According to detailed information gathered by military intelligence, the operation was led by Zalužnyi.
The information from the Dutch ended up with the US Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA, which contacted Ukraine. Zelenskyi stopped the plan he had already approved, but it did not stop General Zalužnyi, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Ukraine denies everything
Valeri Zalužnyi is currently Ukraine’s ambassador to Great Britain. He responded to the Wall Street Journal via text messages, saying he knew nothing about the alleged operation.
Advisor to President Zelensky Mihailo Podoljak has also denied that Ukraine had anything to do with the Nord Stream explosions.
He says to the Reuters news agency that Russia is to blame. According to Podoljak, only Russia had the necessary resources for the operation.