Ukraine blew up Nord Stream, reports reveal
Dutch military intelligence warned Washington about the Ukrainian plot to blow up Nord Stream, months before the attack on the gas pipelines, according to reports.
The Dutch military intelligence agency, MIVD, received information about an "imminent attack" on Nord Stream from an anonymous source in Ukraine in June, three months before a series of underwater explosions took place last September, according to a joint investigation by Dutch and German news outlets published Tuesday.
According to the plan received by the MIVD, the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, General Valery Zaluzhny, commanded the operation against the Nord Stream, in which a small team of divers was traveling on a yacht, and was scheduled to take place in mid-June 2022.
According to the reports, the Dutch intelligence services then informed the US, which contacted Ukraine through the CIA to warn them.
Last September, the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, which connect Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea, were hit by two explosions in what Swedish and Danish authorities called deliberate sabotage. Although Russia was quickly blamed for the explosion, the cause of the incident has not been identified yet.
In a recent interview with Axel Springer, the parent company of Politico, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denied any involvement in the attack.
“I am president and I give orders accordingly,” Zelenskyy said. “Nothing of the sort has been done by Ukraine. I would never act that way.”
Moscow has been blaming the West ever since the explosions, calling the attack an act of international terrorism.
Veteran American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh insisted in a detailed report published on his blog earlier this year that the bombing had been directly ordered by US President Joe Biden and carried out by the CIA with the help of the US Navy.
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