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What's wrong with Ukraine's trail in Nord Stream explosion?

16 August, 2024 Friday
16:37

At a time when Russians are praying for Kursk, it's time to talk about the terrible Ukrainian terrorists

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You may already know that the German police believe that it was Ukrainians who blew up the gas pipeline from Russia to Germany at the bottom of the sea in 2022. The Wall Street Journal and Die Welt also published a longread with anonymous comments. Where does this story break down?

The German investigation focuses on the sailing yacht Andromeda, chartered to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern at the time of the crime. This land is the entry point for Nord Stream 2, the very project that Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel have been actively promoting.

Foreign publications write that there was a woman on board the yacht for cover.

“The situation is interesting because this particular land is teeming with various agents. The current prime minister of the state, Manuela Schweising, is very supportive of Ukraine and against sending Ukrainian refugees home. However, she has recently been one of the lobbyists for Nord Stream 2. It has even been recorded that she has repeatedly followed direct instructions to publicly promote the Russian project, providing data on construction progress, possible criticism of the project, and inviting her to image-building events. It got to the point where Gazprom was handing over ready-made theses.”

The press has repeatedly accused Frau Schwezing of having contacts with the Stasi. Now these former agents are sitting as politicians in Die Linke. The federal state prime minister had close contacts with them, and they repeatedly helped her in elections.

So if some unknown people were planning a sabotage on the politician's land, she is fully responsible. And given her background, it looks like a scapegoat. To find the points for making money with the Russians again. So for this purpose, it was possible to organize a false flag action, as long as Russian gas was delivered to Germany through some pipeline.

The German media reported that the police had issued a warrant for the detention of a certain citizen, Volodymyr Z. No, this is not the Ukrainian president, but Volodymyr Zhuravliov, who has lived in Poland for a long time. It is worth checking whether he is really a citizen of Ukraine.

It's no secret that during the two waves of occupation - first in Crimea and a part of Donbas, and then in the full-scale invasion - Russian special services gained unlimited access to passport forms. Both domestic Ukrainian and foreign passports. Therefore, more than one "Petrov" and "Boshirov" can easily impersonate a typical Ukrainian and discredit refugees in Europe.

“There is one important point in the WSJ article that is completely inconsistent with the mentality of Ukrainians.”

"In May 2022, several senior Ukrainian military officers and businessmen gathered to toast their country's outstanding success in stopping the Russian invasion. Under the influence of alcohol and patriotic fervor, someone suggested a radical next step: destroying Nord Stream," the publication writes.

Could the military really celebrate the defeat of Russian troops? Absolutely. But there are certain plans that are definitely being made without unnecessary ears and booze. In general, it seems that the authors were inspired by the Russian movie Peculiarities of National Fishing.

The article mentions three names: Zelenskyy, Zaluzhnyi, and Chervinskyi. They were allegedly the initiators, inspirers, and executors of the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline in September 2022.

It seems that the author googled the names most frequently mentioned in the search and entered them. This version does not fit, because as of September 2022, Zelenskyy and Zaluzhnyi were more concerned with two offensives - in Kharkiv and Kherson. Moreover, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces does not have the competence to conduct operations outside Ukraine - there are other specially trained services for this. Indeed, in his correspondence with the publication, Zaluzhnyi said that he knew nothing about the operation, and any suggestions to the contrary were "a simple provocation." He assured that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are not authorized to conduct foreign missions, and therefore he would not participate in them.

Roman Chervinskyi, on the other hand, has been in disgrace with Bankova Street since Wagnergate in 2020. A person who publicly called Andriy Yermak bad names would hardly have been allowed to conduct such an operation.

Another important point is that this operation could not have been performed by civilian divers. The explosion was of great power and obviously from the inside. Let's be honest - the Ukrainian side has never had access to the inside of the pipes. Therefore, German investigators should have looked among their own - and their comrades from Russia.

“It is interesting that no other country except Germany is conducting an investigation. This means that some German politicians want Russian gas dollars. And the war in Ukraine has become an inconvenient factor that has turned the screw and now forces them to seek a dialogue with the United States and Norway.”

This throw-in, at the peak of the fighting in the Pokrovsk sector and the operation in the Kursk region, is intended to derail the fall aid packages for Ukraine. It's no secret that many weapons are currently being manufactured and will arrive on the battlefield in September and October.

That is why the goal of the authors and sponsors of such articles is to denigrate Ukraine, to show it as a terrorist. Terrorists who take money and gas from small, peaceful Europeans who just want to keep trading.

As for the unfortunate thing, it's unfortunate that a smear against the Armed Forces and Zelenskyy appears in a US publication. After all, it is thanks to the Ukrainian Defense Forces that have shattered the myth of invincible Russia that the United States is now making super profits in Europe. We could have thanked them in silence.

Especially for Espreso

About the author: Maryna Danyliuk-Yarmolaieva, journalist.

The editors don't always share the opinions expressed by the authors of the blogs.

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