US Intelligence Had Prior Knowledge of Ukrainian Plan to Attack Nord Stream Pipeline

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Source: The Guardian
US Intelligence Had Prior Knowledge of Ukrainian Plan to Attack Nord Stream Pipeline
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The Biden administration received an intelligence report in June 2022 that Ukraine had a plan for an attack on the Nord Stream pipelines using a small team of divers who reported directly to the commander in chief of the Ukrainian armed forces. The report claimed that the six-person team reported directly to General Valerii Zaluzhnyi so that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy would not know about the operation. The intelligence report was drafted three months before an underwater explosion disabled the natural gas link from Russia to Germany.

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