“It’s good,” the US agency told Ukrainian saboteurs about the plan, according to a source
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) discussed the plan to blow up the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea with Ukrainian saboteurs, German outlet Der Spiegel has reported, citing sources in Kiev.
The government in Berlin has attributed the September 2022 explosions that crippled the key energy conduits built to deliver Russian gas to Germany to a small group of Ukrainian operatives. Moscow has repeatedly expressed deep skepticism over the German version of events, arguing that such an operation in NATO-controlled waters could not have been executed without direct government assistance.
The Ukrainians told CIA agents about the plot to destroy Nord Stream in spring 2022, the outlet said in an article on Thursday. The conversation took place at a meeting in Kiev shortly after the escalation between Russia and Ukraine, it added.
At the time, the Americans “apparently liked the plan,” the Ukrainian sources told Der Spiegel.
According to the article, there were several more meetings between the Ukrainians and the CIA, during which the two sides exchanged technical details about the operation, code-named ‘Diameter’.
At one of them the US agents “told our boys: ‘that’s good, that’s fine’” about the plan to target the pipelines, a person familiar with the conversations claimed.
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February 19, 2026 at 04:56PM
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