The chancellor\u2019s office has reportedly refused to clarify whether it received warnings ahead of the Russian gas pipeline bombing<\/p>\n
The German government has refused to clarify whether it received warnings ahead of the Nord Stream sabotage, Ostdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (OAZ) reported on Friday, citing a written response to an opposition lawmaker.
\nAnna Rathert, an MP from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, asked the chancellor\u2019s office whether it received any information from foreign intelligence agencies before the twin pipelines, which were built to deliver Russian gas to Germany via the Baltic Sea, were bombed in September 2022. She also asked why the government had not taken any precautions.
\nIn the document, which was obtained by the outlet, the government said the issue \u201ctouches on the national interest to a particularly high degree\u201d and could jeopardize \u201cthe trusting cooperation\u201d between Germany and its allies. The document added that the response should be treated as \u201cneither confirming nor denying\u201d the matter.<\/p>\n
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According to OAZ, the chancellery refused to provide the information through a special parliamentary procedure that allows classified data to be shared with MPs under strict security protocols. Rathert told the outlet that she considers the response a sign that Berlin is concealing information.
\nIn 2023, the Wall Street Journal reported that the CIA had warned European intelligence agencies, including Germany\u2019s Federal Intelligence Service (BND), about a potential attack on the Nord Stream by a pro-Ukrainian group. Der Spiegel and Cicero magazine later reported that the BND received reports from the CIA and the Dutch intelligence agency (AIVD), but the chancellery dismissed them as \u201ctall tales.\u201d<\/p>\n
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A lawyer for Sergey Kuznetsov, a former Ukrainian commando charged with sabotage, told RT this week that the German authorities are treating the attack on the pipelines as a war crime. \u201cThere are sufficient grounds for suspicion that the acts of sabotage were committed on the instructions of Ukrainian state bodies and were directed by them,\u201d the indictment states, according to Nicola Canestrini, an Italian defense counsel.
\nGermany has alleged that the sabotage was carried out by a Ukrainian team using a small rented yacht. Russia has argued, however, that such a sophisticated operation could not have been carried out without Western assistance. Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested that the US may have been involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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