US newspaper mentions Ukrainian President by name; Poland confirms news from Germany

The Wall Street Journal revealed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky himself approved the plan to sabotage the Nord Stream gas pipeline.

US newspapers revealed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky himself approved the plan to sabotage the Nord Stream gas pipeline. (Source: Twitter)

The Wall Street Journal reported that Ukrainian officials began discussing the possibility of blowing up the gas pipeline in May 2022. Businessmen in the country agreed to finance the plan, which involved several divers and a woman who was disguised as a yacht voyaging.

The plan was encouraged by Mr Zelensky but he tried to stop it, after the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) learned about the operation.

According to the US newspaper, President Zelensky ordered the operation to stop at the request of the CIA, but former Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny ignored it.

Then Mr. Zaluzhny completely changed the original plan. He recruited former Ukrainian special forces officer Roman Chervinsky to organize the attack.

* Recently, German media reported that prosecutors in this country have issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian diving instructor, accused of participating in a group that sabotaged the Nord Stream pipeline in 2022.

German investigators believe the Ukrainian suspect, named only as Volodymyr Z., was one of the divers who planted explosive devices in the Nord Stream pipelines, Die Zeit and Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported.

Europe's largest economy requested the suspect's arrest across the region in June. His last known residence was in Poland.

The Polish National Prosecutor's Office also confirmed that it had received the above order from Germany.

Polish prosecutors also said the man was not arrested in the country because he left for Ukraine in early July.

Nord Stream - a pipeline running from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea - was destroyed in September 2022. To date, there has been no final conclusion as to who was responsible.

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