Ukraine has denied any involvement in last year’s explosions that damaged the Nordstream gas pipelines connecting Russia and western Europe, after media reports in the US and Germany suggested pro-Ukrainian operatives may have been behind the attacks.
“Although I enjoy collecting amusing conspiracy theories about Ukraine’s government, I have to say: Ukraine has nothing to do with the Baltic Sea mishap and has no information about ‘pro-Ukrainian sabotage groups,’” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
Podolyak was reacting to a report in The New York Times that said US officials had reviewed new intelligence suggesting a “pro-Ukrainian group” had carried out the underwater bombings hitting both the Nordstream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea in late September of 2022.