US media: Ukraine has formulated and implemented the "Nord Stream" blasting plan
2024-08-17
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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 16th. The Wall Street Journal of the United States reported on the 14th that the bombing of the "Nord Stream" natural gas pipeline was caused by Ukraine. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky once approved it and then stopped it, but the then Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army Valery Zaluzhny insisted on pushing forward, and the United States and other Western countries were aware of this.
The sources of this report include people who claim to be personally involved in the bombing plan, as well as officials and insiders from countries such as Ukraine, the United States, and Germany.
This aerial photo released by the Danish Ministry of Defense on September 27, 2022 shows a leak in the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline. Xinhua News Agency (Photo provided by the Danish Ministry of Defense)According to reports, one day in May 2022, several senior Ukrainian military officers and businessmen planned to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline in a bar. They agreed that a senior general would command and report directly to Zaluzhny. A few days later, Zelensky approved the plan to blow up the Nord Stream. According to four Ukrainian personnel who were directly involved in or knew about the blasting plan, all action arrangements were carried out verbally without leaving any written records.
The following month, Dutch intelligence learned of the plan and informed the CIA, which then passed the information to Germany. Under pressure from the CIA, Zelensky ordered a halt to the plan, but Zaluzhny did not obey.
The report said that in September 2022, a team of six senior military and civilian divers drove a yacht rented in Germany to the scene to carry out the blasting plan. They carried diving equipment, satellite navigation equipment, portable sonar, etc., and took advantage of the night to go into the water and place the high explosive HMX and the timing device on the Nord Stream pipeline.
A few days after the Nord Stream pipeline was bombed, the Dutch intelligence agency informed the US CIA of the details of the attack, which also passed the information on to the German side.
The report said that in June this year, Germany secretly issued an arrest warrant for a member of the blasting team. The man lived in Poland, but Poland did not assist Germany in arresting him. Multiple media reported on the 14th that the Polish prosecutor's office said the man had left Poland in early July.
This aerial photo released by the Swedish Coast Guard on September 27, 2022 shows a leak in the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline. Xinhua News Agency (Photo provided by the Swedish Coast Guard)In February this year, Zelensky appointed a new commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army to replace Zaluzhny, who is currently Ukraine's ambassador to the UK. In response to the Wall Street Journal report, Zaluzhny said that he was not aware of such plans and that the Ukrainian army was not authorized to carry out missions overseas, so he could not have participated in the plan to attack the "North Stream".
The Wall Street Journal reported that before the Nord Stream pipeline was bombed, Ukrainian intelligence and Western experts had developed a detailed attack plan. The Ukrainian blasting team studied the previous plan but did not adopt it because it was too expensive and too complicated.
After the Nord Stream pipeline was sabotaged, Denmark, Sweden and Germany launched investigations respectively, but refused Russia's participation. In February this year, Sweden and Denmark announced the end of the investigations one after another, but kept the results of the investigations secret.
Seymour Hersh, a well-known American investigative journalist, revealed in February 2023 that the Nord Stream pipeline was secretly sabotaged by the US intelligence agencies and the US military. In June 2022, US military personnel sneaked into the sea to plant bombs under the cover of a NATO exercise, and the Norwegian Navy detonated the bomb in September of the same year. The US government denied this.
The New York Times and Der Spiegel reported that the explosion of the Nord Stream pipeline may have been caused by a Ukrainian group. But Zelensky said he did not issue such an order.
