Zelensky and Zaluzhny personally approved the plan to undermine the Nord Streams – WSJ – Ukraine

The WSJ reported that Zelensky verbally agreed to the plan to undermine the Nord Streams, but tried to cancel it when the CIA learned of the operation.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelenskyhe may have verbally approved the plan to undermine the Nord Streams in 2022 and instructed the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny to implement it.

This publication said The Wall Street Journal in his research.

According to four sources, Zelensky approved the plan within days. All agreements were reached verbally, leaving no traces.

But the following month, the Dutch military intelligence agency MIVD learned of the plot and alerted the CIA, people familiar with the Dutch report said. American officials then contacted Germany.

The CIA warned Zelensky’s office to stop the deal. Then the President of Ukraine said that Zaluzhny ordered to stop her, but the general did not notice the order and his team changed the original plan, writes WSJ.

Zaluzhny, according to sources, brought in some top officers of the Ukrainian special forces, who have experience in organizing high-risk covert missions against Russia, to coordinate the attack. One of them was ex-intelligence officer Roman Chervinsky, who is now on trial for shelling the Kanatovo airfield.

British Ambassador Zaluzhny commented on the investigation, telling reporters that he was not aware of any such activity and that any other suggestion was “provocation.” The senior SBU official also denies that he was involved in sabotage and says that Zelensky, in particular, did not approve of “such actions on the territory of third countries and did not issue appropriate orders,” the WSJ reports.

The text emphasizes that the ongoing investigation into the Nord Stream bombing in Germany “does not connect President Zelensky to the secret operation.”

The publication writes that the work cost about $300,000, according to the people who participated in it.

Let’s remember that several German media reported on August 14 that the federal prosecutor’s office had issued an arrest warrant in June for a Ukrainian who was suspected of sabotage and whose whereabouts are unknown yet. A couple of married Ukrainian divers are also involved in the case. Ukrainian authorities have reiterated that they have nothing to do with this act of sabotage.

Three of the four branches of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines exploded at the bottom of the Baltic Sea on September 26, 2022.

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