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A decorated Ukrainian army officer who is "connected" to the intelligence service "played a key role" and was a "coordinator" of last year's attack on the Nord Stream gas pipeline, the American newspaper Washington Post writes .
The report said that 48-year-old special forces colonel Roman Chervinsky "took orders from several high-ranking Ukrainian officials who ultimately reported to the top general of the Ukrainian army, Valery Zaluzhny."
The Washington Post cited Ukrainian and European officials and others "familiar with the details of the covert operation." According to 'WP', Chervinski has rejected the accusations that he was involved in sabotage through his lawyer.
Western officials have largely blamed Russia for the explosions that nearly destroyed two gas pipelines. Moscow blamed the United States and its allies, saying there was no reason for them to blow up an energy link vital to the delivery of supplies to the west.
Nord Stream is majority owned by Russia's Gazprom and supplies gas to millions of Europeans. In July, investigators trying to solve the unexplained explosions that destroyed the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea said they found traces of underwater explosives on a German yacht linked to the incident.
The revelations, published by Danish, German and Swedish diplomats in a letter dated July 10, were a small but significant development in the mystery of the destruction of the pipeline, which occurred on September 26, 2022, at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. .
The explosions were detected as residual gas bubbled to the surface. The pipelines were built by Russia to bring gas directly to Germany and Europe, bypassing Ukraine, Poland and other countries with hostile ties to Moscow.
"All speculations about my involvement in the Nord Stream attack are being spread by Russian propaganda without any basis," Chervinsky said in a written statement to the Washington Post and SPIEGEL.
In addition, other attacks on energy and other infrastructure have been recorded since the beginning of the Russian occupation of Ukraine in February last year.
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