Ukraine Bean did his very best to try to save Pudding Oil Pipe.

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Ukraine's top general disobeyed Zelenskyy and blew up the Nord Stream pipeline without permission, report says​

Mia Jankowicz
Updated Thu, 15 August 2024 at 11:01 pm SGT4-min read

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• Ukraine was behind the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline, The Wall Street Journal reported.
• The September 2022 explosion disrupted Russia's natural gas exports, hitting global energy markets.
• The WSJ said Volodymyr Zelenskyy tried to halt the plan, but that his top general did it anyway.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attempted to put the brakes on an audacious Ukrainian plot to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline, but his general pushed ahead anyway, according to a new report.

That explosion in the Baltic Sea back in September 2022 resulted in the destruction of a major Russian export route for natural gas, sending shockwaves through energy markets.

 

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Who exactly blew up the pipeline was an enduring mystery. Danish and Swedish investigations closed inconclusively in February this year, and a couple of months later the UN admitted it had "no additional details" on who was behind the attack.

But The Wall Street Journal published the fullest story yet on Wednesday purporting to finally describe what happened.

It said a crew of six Ukrainian-backed divers chartered a 50-foot pleasure boat from Germany, sailed it to the Baltic Sea, and planted explosive charges on the pipeline.

The Journal cited four Ukrainian defense officials who either participated in the plot or were familiar with it, as well as linking many details to a German police investigation. It didn't say why the officials were not named.

 

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A Drunken Evening, a Rented Yacht: The Real Story of the Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage​

Private businessmen funded the shoestring operation, which was overseen by a top general; President Zelensky approved the plan, then tried unsuccessfully to call it off​

A photo provided by the Swedish Coast Guard shows a leak from Nord Stream 2 on Sept. 28, 2022. Swedish Coast guard/Associated Press
By Bojan Pancevski
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It was the kind of outlandish scheme that might bubble up in a bar around closing time.

In May of 2022, a handful of senior Ukrainian military officers and businessmen had gathered to toast their country’s remarkable success in halting the Russian invasion. Buoyed by alcohol and patriotic fervor, somebody suggested a radical next step: destroying Nord Stream.

 

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Really?

 

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Everybody knows the Americans did it.
They're deflecting it to Ukraine in the hope putin will not strike at american infrastructure.
They have had 2 years to prepare this story and pin it on Ukraine.
Facts. Ukraine has not the capability to do the job.