Pointed out as the mastermind behind the explosion

Nord Stream

 
Ukraine's former ÖB is singled out - the mastermind behind the Nord Stream sabotage

Matthias Kjellman

Updated 14.35 | Published 13.05

          

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the country's former commander-in-chief Valery Saluzhny. February 2024. Photo: AP

Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine's former Minister of Foreign Affairs, is singled out as the mastermind behind the sabotage of Nord Stream.

This is evident in a review carried out by France Info.

The French media company reports that more and more evidence points to Zaluzhny and Ukraine.

A Dutch source with contacts in Kiev is said to have alerted the CIA about possible sabotage on Nord Stream a few months before it happened. According to the source, among other things, the divers who carried out the sabotage must have taken their orders from Zaluzjny.

Washington Post reporter Shane Harris says his intelligence sources indicate the same.

Photo: Danska Försvaret / TT Nyhetsbyrån

- According to them, it was not President Zelenskyi who approved or ordered this operation. But that doesn't mean it wasn't carried out by the military. It was an operation that was carried out without express instructions from the president, which allows him to deny that he played any role in it, Harris said.

Both Zaluzhny and President Zelensky have consistently denied any involvement.