The Nord Stream pipeline, which carries natural gas from Russia to Germany, was sabotaged by underwater explosions on September 26 and shut it down, costing Moscow billions of dollars in revenue and disrupting Russia’s gas route to Europe.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reiterated on Wednesday that he was not involved in the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosion and does not believe other Ukrainian officials played a role, multiple newspapers have claimed.
“I didn’t do anything like that, I would never do that,” said the Ukrainian president in an interview with the German media Welt-TV and Bild, in which he was asked about the mystery of the gas pipeline explosion.
“I don’t think our military and intelligence agencies did anything like that, otherwise I’d like to see evidence, we don’t know about it, 100 percent,” he added.
“The perpetrators would be wanted in Ukraine”
According to a Washington Post article published on Tuesday, a European country’s intelligence agency warned the CIA in June 2022 that Ukrainian special forces were planning to blow up the Nord Stream gas pipeline. The daily cites information from numerous confidential documents published online by young American soldier Jack Teixeira, who was arrested in mid-April.
Prior to this information from the Washington Post, German media research claimed that several leads led to the sabotage of gas lines to Ukraine.
Several clues “correspond to the assessments of several secret services, according to which the perpetrators are being sought in Ukraine,” wrote Der Spiegel at the end of May and wondered whether certain elements of the Ukrainian government apparatus were aware of it.
Several countries, including Russia, Ukraine and the United States, have been accused of instigating the sabotage, but all have denied it.