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| Senior Ukrainian official coordinated Nord Stream pipeline attack: report | ||
| 2023-11-12 | ||
| [FoxNews] The report alleges that Roman Chervinsky and a 6-person team orchestrated the explosion. A former senior Ukrainian official was the coordinator of the explosions that ruptured the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipelines, the Washington Post reported, citing Ukrainian officials and European sources, and in conjunction with German periodical Der Spiegel. Roman Chervinsky, a former commander of one of the Ukrainian special forces units, was the "coordinator of the Nord Stream operation" and managed a six-person team that carried out the devastating multibillion-dollar infrastructure attack in September 2022, according to the report. The outlet said Chervinsky and the group of six people rented a sailboat under false identities and used deep-sea diving equipment to place explosive charges on the gas pipelines. Chervinsky did not act alone and did not plan the operation, but was obeying the orders of high-ranking officers who ultimately answered to Ukraine’s highest-ranking military officer, Valery Zaluzhny, the Post said, citing people familiar with his role.
"All speculations about my involvement in the attack on Nord Stream are being spread by Russian propaganda without any basis," Chervinsky said. Since the Sept. 26, 2022, explosion, rumors have swirled around who was responsible for the sabotage of the Nord Streams — with people quick to point fingers to Washington, Kyiv or Moscow. In February, Seymour Hersh,
National Security Council (NSC) spokesperson John Kirby repeatedly denied the United States was involved in the explosions following Hersh's reporting. "It’s a completely false story. There is no truth to it, Shannon," Kirby told host Shannon Bream, on "Fox News Sunday" in February. "Not a shred of it. It is not true. The United States, and no proxies of the United States, had anything to do with that, nothing." The White House, the CIA and the NSC all said that Hersh's report was "utterly false and complete fiction." | ||
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #10 I just checked a map to make sure, Ukraine has no access to the Baltic Sea. That means these intrepid sailors must have traveled to another country that does have a Baltic port to rent this sailboat, either that or they sailed all the way from the Black Sea to the Baltic. That must have been quite a voyage, totally doable but it would take weeks or even months, six guys sharing space on a little sailboat with all that high tech diving gear. But if they traveled to, say, Germany or Poland or Lithuania they would have had to smuggle whatever explosive charge they used across international borders. Inquiring minds want to know, how did they get away with that? And, even though we know that US Navy ships were in the vicinity at the time, the Ukrainians are quite certain pulled this caper all by themselves? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-11-12 15:02 |
| #9 ^ It gets better. The pipeline is at a depth of roughly 100 meters. Sport divers max out around 30 meters. Below that, you need special gas mixtures and decompression equipment depending on how deep and how long. Sure, it may have been some guys and a boat, but they had interesting friends. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2023-11-12 12:33 |
| #8 Rented a sailboat did they? And navigated all by themselves to a spot right above the pipeline without any help at all from the US Navy or the CIA. Sure I believe that. |
| Posted by: Thrineth Shuger1620 2023-11-12 12:16 |
| #7 I demand to see the photographs ! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-11-12 08:52 |
| #6 Comment found elsewhere - "They must have found swim fins and a snorkel in his closet". |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2023-11-12 08:42 |
| #5 Designated fall guy selected |
| Posted by: Slenter Panda4300 2023-11-12 07:10 |
| #4 ZERO - WaPo Drops Bombshell On The Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage Narrative: A Ukrainian Colonel, Covert Ops, & The CIA's Shadow |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-11-12 04:05 |
| #3 Did it all on their own did they ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-11-12 03:53 |
| #2 ^And they're proud of it? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-11-12 02:44 |