The American daily claims that an intelligence agency from an unnamed European country warned the CIA in June 2022 of the attack on the Nord Stream gas pipeline, four months after the start of the war in Ukraine. .
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What really happened on September 26, 2022? Nearly a year after the four huge gas leaks preceded by underwater explosions detected on the gas pipelines linking Russia to Germany, new revelations raise questions. The United States knew that a pro-Ukrainian group wanted to blow up the Nord Stream gas pipeline, according to the claims of the washington post. The American daily obtained certain confidential documents published by the young American soldier Jack Teixeira before his arrest two months ago.
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The newspaper claims that an intelligence agency from an unnamed European country warned the CIA in June 2022, four months after the start of the war in Ukraine. That is three months before the sabotage, according to the documents of the washington post.
According to his documents, a team of six divers had planned to rent the sailboat named Andromeda in a Baltic Sea port city, Rostock, Germany. The latter are carrying false passports and transport helium to be able to place the explosives more than 70 meters under water.
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According to the washington post, they are Ukrainian special forces divers who report directly to the highest ranks of the Kyiv army. President Zelensky would not have been warned. On September 26, three explosions caused massive leaks on the gas pipeline. Only one of the four links is intact.
At the time, Washington accused Moscow of deliberate sabotage, and Ukraine was also named. The United States, warned, would have warned certain allies, including Germany. But did they try to prevent the operation? The White House, questioned, refuses to answer.
Last March, the Ukrainian Minister of Defense reaffirmed that his country was not involved in this spectacular sabotage in the Baltic Sea last September: “It does not come from our action“, explained Oleksiï Reznikov. He was reacting to information obtained by American intelligence and revealed by the New York Times, this time, which already attributed the sabotage to a “pro-Ukrainian group”. border countries of the sabotage (Germany, Sweden and Denmark), the responsibility for the submarine attack still remains mysterious.