In this image offered by Swedish Coast Guard, a leak from Nord Stream 2 is seen, on September 28, 2022.
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The Ukrainian authorities was not concerned within the sabotage final 12 months of the Nord Stream gasoline pipelines within the Baltic Sea, the nation’s defence minister mentioned Wednesday.
“This is not our activity,” Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov advised reporters in Stockholm forward of a gathering with EU defence ministers, in response to a report in The New York Times on Tuesday that US officers had seen new intelligence indicating a “pro-Ukrainian group” was answerable for the sabotage.
The Times report mentioned U.S. officers had no proof implicating Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy within the pipeline bombing, and it didn’t determine the supply of the intelligence or the group concerned.
But the assault benefitted Ukraine by severely damaging Russia’s capacity to reap tens of millions of {dollars} by promoting pure gasoline to Western Europe.
It additionally stoked the surge in power costs weighing on key Ukrainian allies, notably Germany.
The intelligence advised that the perpetrators behind the sabotage have been “opponents of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia”, the Times report mentioned.
On Tuesday, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak tweeted that “Ukraine has nothing to do with the Baltic Sea mishap and has no information about ‘pro-Ukraine sabotage groups’.”
The pipelines have been ruptured by subsea explosives in late September, seven months after Russian forces invaded Ukraine.
Authorities in Germany, Sweden and Denmark have opened inquiries into the incident.
According to separate German media reviews, German investigators consider the unidentified group was made up of 5 males and one lady utilizing professionally falsified passports, and who rented a ship that set sail from the northern German port of Rostock.
German investigators discovered traces of explosives on the desk within the boat’s cabin, in accordance with the report by German broadcasters ARD and SWR and the weekly journal Die Zeit.
Source: www.thehindu.com
