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brooklynite

(93,839 posts)
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 02:42 PM Jun 2023

U.S. had intelligence of detailed Ukrainian plan to attack Nord Stream pipeline

Source: Washington Post

Three months before saboteurs bombed the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline, the Biden administration learned from a close ally that the Ukrainian military had planned a covert attack on the undersea network, using a small team of divers who reported directly to the commander in chief of the Ukrainian armed forces.

Details about the plan, which have not been previously reported, were collected by a European intelligence service and shared with the CIA in June 2022. They provide some of the most specific evidence to date linking the government of Ukraine to the eventual attack in the Baltic Sea, which U.S. and Western officials have called a brazen and dangerous act of sabotage on Europe’s energy infrastructure.

The European intelligence reporting was shared on the chat platform Discord, allegedly by Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira. The Washington Post obtained a copy from one of Teixeira’s online friends.

The intelligence report was based on information obtained from an individual in Ukraine. The source’s information could not immediately be corroborated, but the CIA shared the report with Germany and other European countries last June, according to multiple officials familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence operations and diplomatic discussions.



Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/06/nord-stream-pipeline-explosion-ukraine-russia/
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U.S. had intelligence of detailed Ukrainian plan to attack Nord Stream pipeline (Original Post) brooklynite Jun 2023 OP
At war manicdem Jun 2023 #1
Yes. Took 3 months for truth to put its pants on and chase down the irrefutable logic. Who else?. Alexander Of Assyria Jun 2023 #2

manicdem

(386 posts)
1. At war
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 03:55 PM
Jun 2023

I remember when this first happened everyone was saying Russia did it. I was one of the few to say it was Ukraine.

Then someone replied to me " what motive would Ukraine have to bomb Russia's pipeline?"

Then I said...cause they're at war?

 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
2. Yes. Took 3 months for truth to put its pants on and chase down the irrefutable logic. Who else?.
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 06:41 PM
Jun 2023

And who assisted with the intelligence??

But in international waters…far far from the war zone…criminal act?

No one in Europe was pleased with this destruction of vital infrastructure.

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