Kyiv, March 8. Ukraine on Wednesday denied having any connection to the acts of sabotage against Russia’s Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines that took place last September.
In a post on his Twitter account, the adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, Mikhailo Podoliak, also denied that Kiev had information on the “pro-Ukrainian groups” which were implicated in these attacks.
“Although I love collecting funny conspiracy theories about the Ukrainian government, I must say that Ukraine has nothing to do with the Baltic Sea accident and has no information about the ‘groups of pro-Ukrainian sabotage,'” adviser Volodymyr Zelensky said.
“What happened to the Nord Stream pipes? ‘They sank’, as they say in the Russian Federation itself,” added the adviser to the Ukrainian president.
The New York Times newspaper assured on Tuesday that a pro-Ukrainian group could be behind acts of sabotage against Russian gas pipelines.
“New intelligence data reviewed by US officials suggests that a pro-Ukrainian group carried out the attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines last year,” the newspaper said, noting that according to these officials there is no evidence that President Zelensky or his closest aides were involved in the operation.
At the time of the sabotage, Moscow accused the “Anglo-Saxon” countries of being behind it, alluding to opposition to the project that Washington has had for years – because it is supposed to generate European dependence on Russian gas. -, while some Western countries have headed in the opposite direction. .
The attacks on the gas pipelines, which were not in service, caused two leaks in each of them, two in the Danish zone and two in the Swedish zone, all in international waters.
The three main leaks were sealed in early October, when the pressure was stabilized in the pipes, but the smallest remained active for a few more days. ECE
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