Tue 07 March 2023:

New intelligence reviewed by U.S. officials suggests that a pro-Ukrainian group carried out the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines last year, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.

There was no evidence that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy or his top lieutenants in Ukraine were involved in the operation, or that the perpetrators were acting at the direction of any Ukrainian government officials, the newspaper reported, citing U.S. officials.

Ukraine denies

Ukraine’s foreign ministry denied on Tuesday that Kyiv was involved in attempted sabotage at a Belarusian air field last month.

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko alleged that Ukrainian and U.S. intelligence services were involved in the drone attack in late February which was claimed by Belarusian anti-government activists.

“It is clear that this is another attempt to create an artificial threat from Ukraine for the sake of justifying (Belarusian) support for Russia’s aggression,” Ukrainian foreign ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko said in a statement.

A senior aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy also said on Tuesday that Kyiv was “absolutely not involved” in last year’s attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines and has no information about what happened.

Mykhailo Podolyak made the comments in a statement to Reuters following the release of a New York Times report citing U.S. officials suggesting a pro-Ukrainian group was responsible.

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