Ukraine denies involvement in Nord Stream sabotage

He Advisor to Ukrainian President Mikhailo Podoliaksaid on Tuesday that kyiv had nothing to do with the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in Baltic waters in September last year, thus rejecting the latest information published by the American newspaper ‘The New York Times’.

Podoliak’s statements come after the aforementioned newspaper published an article on Tuesday indicating that US intelligence services had reports on the the involvement of a pro-Ukrainian group in the sabotage. For its part, an investigation by the German press points out that the attack was carried out from a yacht rented from a company based in Poland, owned by two Ukrainians.

“Although I like collecting funny conspiracy theories about the Ukrainian government, I have to say that Ukraine has nothing to do with the Baltic Sea accident and has no information about “pro-groups”. Ukrainian sabotage”.said Podoliak on his official profile on the social network Twitter.

For its part, the Spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, also reacted to the information published by the American newspaper and, far from rejoicing, criticized that these leaks make it difficult to investigate the factscollects the TASS agency.

“Instead of disclosing to Western regimes in connection with the incident, we must respond to official requests from the Russian side and, at a minimum, take into account the elements of the journalistic investigation of (American journalist Seymour) Hersh, without replacing them. with anonymous things”Zakharova pointed out.

The spokesperson for Russian diplomacy thus alluded to a information published by Hersh several weeks ago in which he accuses the United States Navy of being the cause of the explosions of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines in September.