"Zelensky approved sabotage of Nord Stream gas pipelines"
A remarkable breakthrough in the investigation into the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky did know about and initially authorized plans to blow up the Nord Stream gas pipelines. So writes the Wall Street Journal after it had conversations with four people involved in the September 2022 act of sabotage.
The ground got too hot under his feet: Zelensky turned his cart around
The plan for the attack was conceived at a get-together of Ukrainian officers and businessmen in May of that year, according to the Wall Street Journal. The businessmen financed the operation, which cost about 300,000 dollar (272,000 euros). One of those involved told the U.S. newspaper that Zelenski approved the plan, something three other sources confirmed. But after the U.S. CIA caught wind of the plan and asked the Ukrainian president not to go through with it, Zelensky changed his mind. But the then chief of Ukraine's General Staff, General Valeri Zaluzhny, decided to go ahead with the Nord Stream gas pipeline sabotage anyway. Against this Zaluzhny, Germany issued an international arrest warrant this week.
(SR for Tagtik/Source: Wall Street Journal/Illustration picture: Picture by President of Ukraine via Wikicommons licensed under cco_1_0)
