Beneficial for Russia: What the Aggressor Country Got After the Explosion of Nord Stream

Beneficial for Russia: what the aggressor country got after the explosion of the Nord Stream Natalia Belzetskaya

~6 0~p _ngcontent-sc107 class=”news-annotation”>In September 2022, explosions occurred along the routes of the Russian gas pipelines Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2. This happened in the territorial waters of Sweden and Denmark.

Almost 2 years after the event, The Wall Street Journal wrote that the explosion was allegedly planned in Ukraine. As Ivan Us, chief consultant of the National Institute for Strategic Studies, told Channel , modeling this situation is not very plausible.

Who really benefits from the explosion

The Wall Street Journal article says that the operation was allegedly approved by Vladimir Zelensky, but later he refused it. And the sabotage was allegedly planned by the then commander-in-chief Valeriy Zaluzhny.

It is interesting that after the explosions the first branch of the gas pipeline was damaged, and the second one much less. Then Russia immediately proposed to send gas through the second branch, which was then under sanctions. In fact, the aggressor country tried to bypass the Western sanctions against Nord Stream 2.

If we analyze these events, the situation was beneficial to the Russians. There is an expression that you need to look for those who benefit from it. This story suited Russia in particular, so that Europe would violate its own sanctions, – noted Ivan Us.

And given that they started talking about the explosion again, the occupiers may want to use this to sow discord between Ukraine and its partners. It would be nice if independent investigators analyzed the publication of The Wall Street Journal. After all, the materials provided raise more questions than they answer.

The Nord Stream explosion: what is known

• Information about the destruction of three lines of the gas pipeline at once was reported by one of the Nord Stream operators. This happened on September 27, 2022. It is known that the gas pipeline runs along the bottom of the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany. Damage was recorded in the waters of Denmark and Sweden.
• The Office of the President of Ukraine called this situation “a terrorist attack planned by the Russians.” Mykhailo Podolyak noted that this is an act of aggression towards the European Union and a desire to undermine economic stability in Europe.
• In August 2024, German media reported that the authorities were looking for a suspect in the explosion. He allegedly turned out to be a Ukrainian. Also, the German prosecutor's office allegedly issued arrest warrants for two more people.