A report by the American media ‘Wall Street Journal’ claims that kyiv hatched the plan to blow up the gas pipeline carrying Russian gas to Germany in May 2022, citing four unnamed Ukrainian military sources.
A small Ukrainian crew disguised as a recreational cruiser would be behind the sabotage of Nord Stream gas pipelinesaccording to a report from the ‘Wall Street Journal‘.
The operation would have been planned during a drunken night in May 2022when the Ukrainian military celebrated having detained Russia’s large-scale invasion of the country and were seeking to deal another blow to Moscow, according to the newspaper.
‘Wall Street Journal’ cita four anonymous sources close to the plan. Nord Stream is a gas pipeline network that runs under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany to supply natural gas to Europa Occidentalgenerating billions for the Kremlin’s coffers.
Zelensky knew the plan
Apparently, The plot cost about $300,000. (273,000 euros) and involved a crew of six on a small rented yacht. He Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky he initially approved it before the American intelligence agency CIA found out and asked him to leave it.
The Ukrainian president ordered to stop the operationbut his commander-in-chief, Valeri Zaluzhni, carried it out anywayaccording to the aforementioned media.
The media outlet claimed to have spoken with four senior Ukrainian Defense and Security officials who participated or had direct knowledge of the plot and all of them They considered pipelines a legitimate target to defend against Russia.
‘Euronews’ has not been able to independently verify the claims of these sources.
Germany and Poland doubt the involvement of Ukraine. The newspaper also explained that parts of the sources’ accounts had been corroborated by a German investigation on the matter.
However, the German Intelligence Services have stated that they doubt that Ukraine was really behind the sabotageHey, it is possible that this was a ‘false flag’ operation by Russia. This is supported by the Polish authorities, who sent the names of the Russian suspects to the German Intelligence Service.
The ‘Wall Street Journal’ article comes after German media reported that the Prosecutor’s Office had issued the first arrest warrant in his investigation into the attack on Nord Stream. The report identified the man as Volodymir Z, without citing sources, and suggested that He had recently returned to Ukraine.
