Kyiv: A Ukrainian navy officer coordinated final yr’s assault on the North Stream fuel pipeline, the Washington Put up reported Saturday, citing unnamed sources in Ukraine and Europe.
Nobody has taken duty for the September 2022 explosions, which happened off the coast of the Danish island of Bornholm and ruptured three of the 4 pipelines within the Russian fuel supply system to Europe.
Washington and NATO known as it an act of sabotage, whereas Moscow known as it an act of worldwide terrorism.
Roman Chervinsky, a former intelligence official who served within the Ukrainian military’s particular forces, led a group of six however didn’t plan the assault, the Put up reported. He denied any involvement.
A Ukrainian navy spokesman instructed Reuters he had “no data” in regards to the declare. Ukraine’s Overseas Ministry and kyiv’s inner safety service, the SBU, didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
The newspaper additionally reported that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who has denied kyiv’s position within the explosions, was unaware of the operation. Zelensky final week he changed the pinnacle of Ukraine’s particular operations forces.
Germany, Denmark and Sweden have launched investigations into the Nord Stream explosions, which despatched plumes of methane into the environment in a leak that lasted a number of days.
Chervinsky is presently below arrest for extra of energy after an try in 2022 to persuade a Russian pilot to defect to Ukraine, which investigators say led to a lethal Russian assault on a Ukrainian air base.
A vocal critic of Zelenskiy’s administration, Chervinsky mentioned the fees in opposition to him have been politically motivated and that he was following orders within the operation.
Its commander on the time, Main Basic Viktor Hanushchak, instructed Ukrainian media earlier this yr that prime navy officers had permitted the plot to lure the Russian pilot.
The Put up and German newspaper Der Spiegel collaborated on reporting and wrote separate articles that they agreed to publish on the identical time.
Nobody has taken duty for the September 2022 explosions, which happened off the coast of the Danish island of Bornholm and ruptured three of the 4 pipelines within the Russian fuel supply system to Europe.
Washington and NATO known as it an act of sabotage, whereas Moscow known as it an act of worldwide terrorism.
Roman Chervinsky, a former intelligence official who served within the Ukrainian military’s particular forces, led a group of six however didn’t plan the assault, the Put up reported. He denied any involvement.
A Ukrainian navy spokesman instructed Reuters he had “no data” in regards to the declare. Ukraine’s Overseas Ministry and kyiv’s inner safety service, the SBU, didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
The newspaper additionally reported that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who has denied kyiv’s position within the explosions, was unaware of the operation. Zelensky final week he changed the pinnacle of Ukraine’s particular operations forces.
Germany, Denmark and Sweden have launched investigations into the Nord Stream explosions, which despatched plumes of methane into the environment in a leak that lasted a number of days.
Chervinsky is presently below arrest for extra of energy after an try in 2022 to persuade a Russian pilot to defect to Ukraine, which investigators say led to a lethal Russian assault on a Ukrainian air base.
A vocal critic of Zelenskiy’s administration, Chervinsky mentioned the fees in opposition to him have been politically motivated and that he was following orders within the operation.
Its commander on the time, Main Basic Viktor Hanushchak, instructed Ukrainian media earlier this yr that prime navy officers had permitted the plot to lure the Russian pilot.
The Put up and German newspaper Der Spiegel collaborated on reporting and wrote separate articles that they agreed to publish on the identical time.
