Newspaper: The US knew about Ukrainian plans for Nord Stream sabotage
The US had intelligence information about Ukrainian plans to attack the Nord Stream pipelines three months before the explosions occurred, writes Washington Post.
In June last year, the American CIA received, via a European intelligence service, information that a team of six people from the Ukrainian special forces had plans to blow up the two gas pipelines, the newspaper writes.
The six reportedly reported directly to Valery Zaluzhny, commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, according to the intelligence report. Furthermore, it is said that Zaluzhnyi was given responsibility for the operation so that President Volodymyr Zelenskyi would not know about it.
The CIA is said to have received the intelligence information three months before the two gas pipelines were blown up last September.
It is not known which European intelligence service the CIA received the information from. Sources tell the Washington Post that the CIA shared the information with Germany and “other European countries”.
The European intelligence information is said to have emerged in classified documents that were leaked on the online platform Discord by the American 21-year-old Jack Teixeira in April. Details of the plan should have been shared with the CIA in June 2022, the newspaper writes.
(NTB)
2023-06-08 02:20:18
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