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Dutch army knowledge cautioned the American knowledge solution, CIA, in 2015 regarding a claimed Ukrainian strategy to explode the Nord Stream pipes 3 months prior to they were struck, Dutch public broadcaster NOS reported on Tuesday without defining a resource.
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The record was based upon a joint examination by NOS, Dutch tv information reveal Nieuwsuur [Newshour] and also German media Pass away Zeit and also ARD.
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The USA got knowledge from a European ally in 2015 that the Ukrainian armed force was intending a strike on the Nord Stream gas pipes, CNN reported last week based on info from 3 United States authorities.
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The strike on the pipes last September has actually been condemned by United States authorities and also Western allies alike as a sabotage on important facilities. It is presently being examined by various other European countries.
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The Wall Surface Road Journal (WSJ) reported on Tuesday that the CIA cautioned Ukraine in 2015 to not strike the Nord Stream gas pipes after getting info regarding a claimed Ukrainian strategy, mentioning authorities accustomed to the exchange.
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The CIA got the suggestion from Dutch army knowledge, the authorities told the WSJ.
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Netherlands’s public broadcaster in its record claimed that the Dutch army knowledge solution, MIVD, was able at an onset to collect comprehensive info regarding supposed Ukrainian story to explode the pipes. The MIVD did not offer a remark to the NOS, the broadcaster claimed.
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The CIA and also the Dutch consular office in the United States both decreased to comment when CNN connected for talk about Tuesday.
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CNN has actually additionally connected to the MIVD, the Ukrainian federal government for action yet hasn’t listened to back.
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The information comes much less than a year after leakages triggered by undersea surges were found in the Nord Stream 1 and also 2 pipes, which channel gas from Russia right into the European Union and also run under the Baltic Sea. The pipes were questionable prior to the battle in Ukraine started, feeding worries regarding European reliance on Russian gas.
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Neither of the pipes were proactively moving gas to Europe at the time of the leakages, though they still held gas under stress.
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Ukraine refuted any type of obligation for the leakages at the time, with the leading advisor to Ukrainian Head of state Volodymyr Zelensky describing the suggestion as an “enjoyable conspiracy theory” concept.
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” Although I take pleasure in accumulating enjoyable conspiracy theory concepts regarding [the Ukrainian] federal government, I need to state: [Ukraine] has absolutely nothing to do with the Baltic Sea incident and also has no info regarding ‘pro-[Ukraine] sabotage teams,'” Mykhailo Podolyak claimed on Twitter.
