According to a major investigation by the Wall Street Journal(WSJ) published this week, US intelligence was forewarned about the operation and attempted to prevent it – only to be ignored by the Ukrainians.
Private businessmen funded the shoestring operation, which was overseen by a top general; President Zelensky approved the plan, then tried unsuccessfully to call it off
German investigation examines whether ally’s territory was a springboard for pipeline attack.
…findings suggest Poland was a hub for the logistics and financing of last September’s undersea sabotage attack that severed the strongest bond tying Berlin to Moscow.
The CIA learned last June, through a European spy agency, that a six-person team of Ukrainian special operations forces intended to blow up the Russia-to-Germany project, the newspaper reported.
German insurers Allianz and Munich Re have renewed cover for the damaged Russia-controlled Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, five sources with knowledge of the matter said, indicating that its revival has not been ruled out after an alleged sabotage attack.
And we’re going to start with what could be the funniest lie of the year. Vladimir Putin blew up Russia’s natural gas pipeline to Europe. Now, why would Putin do something like that?
“With a view to further clarifying the nature of the object, Danish authorities have decided to salvage the object with assistance from the Danish Defence,” Denmark’s Energy Agency said in a statement Thursday. “The Danish Energy Agency has in that context invited the owner of the pipeline, Nord Stream 2 AG, to participate in the operation.”
‘Do you think that a terrorist attack like this, in international waters, in a sea that is observed by many different surveillance systems, that this could happen without anybody taking notice?’ complained Dr. Ralf Stegner, a member of the governing Social Democrats (SPD) party and chair of the Bundestag’s Committee of Inquiry and the Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Nonproliferation in December. ‘That’s hard to believe. It wasn’t an attack on Mars, it was in the Baltic Sea.’
SEYMOUR Hersh, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist with decades of experience assessing intelligence for its credibility and accuracy, has published a detailed account of how the CIA, in collaboration with Norwegian partners in Nato, planned and executed the sabotaging of the Russian gas pipelines collectively known as Nord Stream 1 and 2.
A bold new report from journalist Seymour Hersh has sparked intense debate about whether or not it was the United States, not Russia, that sabotaged the Nord Stream pipeline last year.
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