US newspaper: Former Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhny ordered the explosion of Nord Stream 2
The Wall Street Journal (USA) published the results of an investigation stating that former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny was the one who ordered the Nord Stream gas pipeline to explode.
According to the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda (Youth Truth), the Wall Street Journal published an investigation, which confirmed that the "author" of the idea to blow up the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines and the person who ordered the sabotage was Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) noted that, at that time, Mr. Zelensky's presidential powers had not yet expired.
WSJ journalists, citing their sources, said that the plan to blow up the gas pipeline appeared in May 2022, although previously Western media said that the idea of such sabotage had begun to “populate” in Ukrainian political circles in 2014. But then all this stopped being “just a dream”. However, under President Zelensky, it became a concrete plan.
Notably, Ukrainian businessmen loyal to the Kiev government were involved in financing the sabotage, the WSJ said. Moreover, all agreements were concluded verbally, so as not to leave any documentary evidence. But the US intelligence agency CIA, which discovered this Ukrainian sabotage plan, expressed dissatisfaction with it.
According to WSJ, the US CIA representative requested to stop this sabotage operation. However, President Zelensky gave the corresponding order to Mr. Valery Zaluzhny - who was in the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but Mr. Zaluzhny ignored the order. Moreover, General Valery Zaluzhny made changes in the preparation for the operation and involved the former officer of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Roman Chervinsky in organizing the sabotage.
Mr. Chervinsky did not dive himself, but provided the Andromeda yacht with supplies and all the logistics for the operation. And the people who directly sabotaged the gas pipelines were diver Vladimir Zhuravlev and a couple Evgeniy and Svetlana Uspensky, who also enjoy diving.
Speaking to WSJ, Mr. Zaluzhny, currently the Ukrainian ambassador in London (UK), denied that he was involved in the explosion of the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
