The Wall Street Journal reported in an exclusive Wednesday evening that Ukraine was behind the September 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosion and that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tried to stop it, but one of his top generals defied him and did it anyway.
The explosion in the Baltic Sea caused the demise of a major Russian export route for natural gas—but it’s been a mystery since who carried out the plan, with theories making the rounds that it was the CIA, the Ukranians, or even the Russians themselves who set the explosives.
The new report is the most detailed accounting yet:
Danish and Swedish investigations closed inconclusively in February this year, and a couple of months later the UN admitted it had “no additional details” on who was behind the attack.
But The Wall Street Journal published the fullest story yet on Wednesday purporting to finally describe what…