Several Western media outlets reported Tuesday that the CIA warned Ukraine last year not to bomb the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines that connect Russia and Germany.
In recent months, US and other Western officials speaking to the media have suggested Ukraine was behind the Nord Stream sabotage. Most reports on the issue have ignored or dismissed the fact that journalist Seymour Hersh has sources who said President Biden ordered the bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines.
According to unnamed US officials speaking to The New York Times, Dutch intelligence officials told the CIA in June 2022 that they learned of a Ukrainian military plot to attack the pipelines. The CIA then warned Ukraine not to carry out the attack, and US officials now believe it was postponed to September 2022.
A European official told the Times that Ukraine’s original plan involved Ukrainian special forces renting a submersible vessel to attack the pipelines. The CIA was also said to warn Germany about a potential plot to sabotage Nord Stream.
The latest Nord Stream allegations were first reported by the news outlet Die Zeit and NOS, a Dutch broadcaster. They claimed that the Ukrainian plot was overseen by Valery Zaluchny, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces.
For his part, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denied Kyiv was involved in the destruction of the pipelines. “I am president, and I give orders accordingly,” he said. “Nothing of the sort has been done by Ukraine. I would never act that way.”
The idea that the US suspected Ukrainian involvement in the Nord Stream bombings first surfaced in a New York Times report that was published on March 7. Sources told Seymour Hersh that the report was a cover-up planted in the paper by the CIA to discredit his story that points the finger at President Biden.
Hersh’s reporting on the Nord Stream plot hasn’t been confirmed, but the US is still a prime suspect as it had a clear motive and US officials made threats against the pipelines. On February 7, 2022, President Biden vowed to “bring an end” to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline if Russia invaded Ukraine.
A few weeks earlier, Victoria Nuland, undersecretary of state for political affairs, made a similar threat. “If Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another, Nord Stream 2 will not move forward,” she said.
According to Hersh’s reporting, US Navy divers planted explosives on the Nord Stream pipelines in June 2022 under cover of NATO exercises in the Baltic Sea. He said the explosives were detonated by a Norwegian spy plane dropping a sonar buoy in the area on September 26, 2022.
Blah… Blah… Blah…. Blah….. Is this news or just ore spin???????????
Not sure who are they trying to fool? Only the most simpleton would believe Ukraine had a hand in this.
If Washington is going to stick to the story of the Ukrainians doing it, it cannot be taken as anything other than a huge crack between the US and the Ukraine. It’s literally throwing Zelensky under the bus in front of the whole world. Perhaps it’s a prelude to ‘regime change’ in Kiev, and we know what that means for Zelensky- a double tap and a long sleep with the fishes.
I think it will be done by drone (perhaps Chinese manufacture) right out of the Russian playbook.
Yeah right …
Don’t do it, okay? Wink wink.
“CIA Told Ukraine Not to Bomb Nord Stream Pipelines” NY Times
But Zelensky defied. What a credible news.
Another lie to justify the earlier lie…!
This was at the same time he told his special ops not to attack the ZNPP, nor the Karkhava (sp) dam?
Couldn’t have Ukraine doing this. They might have spotting the U.S. Navy divers.
If Ukraine did destroy the Nord Stream pipeline, it was an attack on Germany’s vital infrastructure. This qualifies under NATO’s Article 5. It also is a terrorism. Why are countries in the EU supporting a country that has engaged in state terrorism and attacked an EU country?
Note: I still think the US/Biden administration did it..
No this would not be an article 5 issue the pipeline was owned primarily by the Russian state – as such it was a legitimate military target for the Ukrainians – it could very likely have soured the relations to the Germans, but it would not trigger an article 5.
Attacking the Nord stream pipeline also does not qualify as terrorism – just like attacking the electricity infrastructure of Ukraine does not actually qualify as terrorism.
I think this may be the only occasion where I agree with zalenskyy. It’s kinda ridiculous that Ukraine would bomb nordstream (before all of the other much more pressing targets. I’m sure Ukraine would get around to nordstream had they a wealth of military explosives ready). But America? it makes a lot of sense why america would do this.
No, don’t do it, because we will!
Can’t Biden stick to one story?
Is this the 5th or 6th story they have told us about that pipeline?
Liars, they are just liars.