NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg declarationThat the Alliance did not know who might have sabotaged the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines. He voiced this at the meeting of EU defense ministers in Stockholm.
Stoltenberg also stressed that the sabotage confirms NATO’s need to protect critical underwater infrastructure.
On the eve of the American newspaper The New York Times (NYT) reportedThis new US intelligence shows that a pro-Ukrainian group is involved in the Nord Stream system’s work to undermine Russian gas pipelines. The report said that US officials examining the intelligence said they had no evidence that they were involved in the bombing of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Later, the British newspaper The Times statedThat Western intelligence agencies have long known about Ukraine’s trail of sabotage in Nord Stream.