(Washington) An intelligence agency of a European country had warned the CIA in June 2022 that Ukrainian special forces planned to blow up the Nord Stream gas pipeline, reports Tuesday the washington post.
The daily cites information from the numerous confidential documents published online by the young American soldier Jack Teixeira before the leak was discovered and the suspect apprehended in mid-April.
These documents indicated that an intelligence agency of an unspecified European country had informed the CIA, four months after the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, that military divers answering directly to the commander-in-chief of the forces Ukrainian armies were planning this attack on Nord Stream.
The Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, intended to transport natural gas from Russia to Germany, were hit by underwater explosions on September 26 and thus rendered inoperative, potentially depriving Moscow of billions of dollars in revenue.
Several countries, including Russia, Ukraine and the United States, had been accused of bearing responsibility, but all had denied it.
According to washington postthe United States, after having been warned of the supposed plan of attack, had informed allies, including Germany.
For the European intelligence agency at the origin of this information, the operation was supervised by General Valeriï Zaloujniï without the knowledge of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The revelations of washington post are consistent with information from German investigators that a team of six people equipped with fake passports borrowed a sailboat from the port of Rostock, Germany, to conduct the operation.
The Polish company having rented the sailboat would in fact be owned by Ukrainians.
Danish media recently reported, however, that a Russian navy vessel specializing in underwater operations was photographed near the sabotage area shortly before the explosions.