The complicated story is strained by more and more contradictions: the history of the American and German newspapers supports the narrative according to which the members of the Western alliance - and especially the United States - are not responsible for the bombing.
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According to the American Washington Post and the German Spiegel, the former officer of the Ukrainian intelligence service, Roman Chervinskyi, may have been the coordinator of the operation. The papers refer to sources who are familiar with the planning, who know the person's role, and who ask to remain anonymous, who have not previously reported on their information.
However, it is not clear how the person of the former officer arose at all. The main argument of the articles is that Chervinsky was perfectly suited for the task.
“However, it is telling that the former officer is already under arrest for another incident. According to the indictment, last summer he unsuccessfully tried to persuade a Russian pilot to defect, and the airport - where his plane was supposed to be handed over - was finally attacked by Russian troops. The consequence: one Ukrainian was dead and more than a dozen were wounded," Olivér Hortay explained.
According to the business manager, the matter is further complicated by the fact that after the outbreak of the war, Chervinsky publicly suspected the Zelensky administration of having Russian spies among its members.
According to the former officer, his arrest is political retaliation and that the action against the pilot was actually approved by his commander-in-chief. Moreover, this was also confirmed by his former direct superior, so more and more people see the former Ukrainian officer not as a criminal, but as a national hero.
And for the time being, there is no evidence that Chervinsky participated in the attack on the Nord Stream.
The former officer denies having anything to do with the case, and the Ukrainian authorities are not commenting.
"Either way, Chervinsky seems like an ideal scapegoat. The history of the American and German newspapers supports the narrative that the members of the Western alliance - and especially the United States - are not responsible for the bombing. "With Chervinsky's possible participation, it also seems more plausible that President Zelensky did not know about the preparation of the action," said the expert.
Olivér Hortay emphasized: the story is therefore nice and round, except that there are some problems with it.
After the incident, for example, due to the lack of sufficient military capabilities, security experts first ruled out the possible participation of the Ukrainians. Then how could they have become the prime suspect by now?
- The question remains as to where the results of the official investigation are. It is absurd that one year after a historic terrorist attack on European critical infrastructure, we can still collect the pieces of the puzzle only from value-driven, "investigative" articles, added the business manager.
Cover photo: Image provided by the Danish Armed Forces of bubbles breaking on the surface of the sea in a circle roughly one kilometer in diameter due to the leakage of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipelines that carry natural gas from Russia to Germany off the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea on September 27, 2022
Source : MTI/AP/Danish Armed Forces
