The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in June-July 2022 notified the German Federal Intelligence Service that three Ukrainian citizens could be preparing a sabotage on the Nord Stream pipeline, writes The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed administration officials familiar with the report. about the latest intelligence findings.
According to sources, the document provided information about three Ukrainian citizens who tried to rent ships in countries bordering the Baltic Sea, including Sweden. The newspaper notes that the conclusions about the responsibility of the pro-Ukrainian group “are not final”, but the possible involvement of Ukrainian citizens in the explosions was not ruled out from the very beginning of the investigation.
The interlocutors of the WSJ also said that CIA Director William Burns and National Security Adviser to the US President Jake Sullivan in October 2022 considered the version of Ukraine’s responsibility for sabotage on gas pipelines as working, but at the moment there is no information indicating the involvement of the Ukrainian authorities in sabotage .
In addition, the publication notes that the German authorities, conducting their own investigation of the incident, by February “virtually ruled out” the possibility of involvement in the sabotage of Russia, which was initially the main suspect.
Recall that over the past few days, several Western publications have published information about the alleged involvement in the explosions at the Nord Streams of a certain “pro-Ukrainian group”.
Source: Rosbalt
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