The day before, The New York Times reported that there were intelligence data that show convincingly that a certain pro-Ukrainian group was behind the sabotage on the Nord Stream gas pipelines. This group's plans were a secret to official Kiev. This was also confirmed by the German publication Zeit, which wrote that traces of the attack on the pipelines lead to Ukraine.
"The name of the alleged private sponsor, a Ukrainian, is not associated with the government ... of Zelensky. This name has been circulating in intelligence circles for several months, but has not been disclosed", the newspaper said in a publication, RIA Novosti reports.
According to the article's author, in this way NATO officials wanted to protect Kiev from a public dispute with Berlin.
The fact that it was not the Americans, the Russians or the Poles who were behind the attacks, but a "private enterprise from Ukraine" was known to intelligence a week after the incident, and the Scandinavian delegation's members in Brussels were informed of this.
An employee of the US Congress told Politico almost the same thing, noting that the sabotage at Nord Stream was probably carried out by people connected with Ukraine, and not with Russia and the USA.
"People connected to Ukraine probably did it ... It wasn't us and probably not Russians", the newspaper quoted a staff member who wished to remain anonymous.
According to the publication, for several months the intelligence service has been saying that US officials pay more attention to the version of events, when the sabotage was a "pro-Ukrainian" rather than a "pro-Russian" action.
However, the head of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Alexey Reznikov, immediately stated that sabotage on the Nord Stream pipelines was not Kiev's "work", Agence France-Presse writes.
