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Ukrainian Suspected of Leading Nord Stream Sabotage Arrested in Italy
wsj.com ^ | Aug. 21, 2025 | Bojan Pancevski

Posted on 08/21/2025 12:06:52 PM PDT by ransomnote

A former Ukrainian military officer suspected of leading a team that sabotaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022 was detained in Italy on Wednesday under an international arrest warrant issued by German prosecutors, according to investigators and people familiar with the case. 

The officer, identified by German police as Serhii K., allegedly headed a team of two soldiers and four civilian divers covertly recruited by a special Ukrainian military unit to lay explosives that damaged the undersea pipelines, investigators said. 


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Of course, lefties blamed Putin for blowing up the NordStream pipleline. RussiaRussiaRussia!


1 posted on 08/21/2025 12:06:52 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

For the record, I think the Biden regime helped blow the pipeline.
Monkey Werx (YOUTUBE CHANNEL) Tracked US aircraft flying over the pipeline at the appointed time, and noted an abrupt rise in altitude typical of the motion of a bombing aircraft once the payload is released. So I think Biden/NATO wanted to be absolutely certain...


2 posted on 08/21/2025 12:09:07 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote

I found that WallStreet Journal link in one of Oratam’s posts and forgot to H/T Oratam!


3 posted on 08/21/2025 12:09:50 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote

It bypassed the lines in Ukraine. Russia had no motive. Only Ukraine did...cuz they get big bucks if someone uses their lines.


4 posted on 08/21/2025 12:14:16 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Yes. I think Ukraine was behind it, but Biden helped because they didn’t want anything that could be repaired and they figured they only had one chance.


5 posted on 08/21/2025 12:20:40 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote

My thinking, as well.


6 posted on 08/21/2025 12:23:27 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ransomnote
Related: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4335912/posts
7 posted on 08/21/2025 12:41:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: ransomnote; ConservativeMind
--- "I think Ukraine was behind it, but Biden helped because they didn’t want anything that could be repaired and they figured they only had one chance."

As the motion has been seconded, I add another in agreement.

One recalls that Sweden ended its investigation and handed the info over to Germany, given their participatioin in NordStream (remember ex-chancellor Gerhard Schroeder?). And then NOTHING more was said publicly, until this stuff about some Ukrainians and a rental boat.

8 posted on 08/21/2025 12:43:24 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: ransomnote

Yup.. the Soros backers (Zeepers).


9 posted on 08/21/2025 12:45:33 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

“I think Ukraine was behind it, but Biden helped...”
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Biden had just left a classified hearing when a reporter asked, “What makes you think the pipeline can be compromised.” (WTTE)

Biden responded, “Trust me”.

The theory that the US was responsible was promoted widely by a lefty writer.


10 posted on 08/21/2025 1:25:32 PM PDT by Does so ("Things will now change in Minneapolis AND AT HOME"....Dem☭¢rat... ∅ one ™ ¿ ¡ ☞ ½¼)
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To: Does so
--- "The theory that the US was responsible was promoted widely by a lefty writer."

Only one?

I do conspiracies from time to time. I thought the mRNA stuff was a conspiracy, and so remained "pureblood" as some Freepers say. I thought the Steele Dossier and Brennan's, Clapper's and Comey's part in attacking President was a conspiracy. I thought the aggressive and costly lawfare against Lt. General Flynn was a conspiracy. I still think Adam Schiff's mortgage fraud is real, and not a ginned up conspiracy theory.

Conspiracy is an interesting word. So many conspiracies of late turn out to not have been conspiracies.

And as to that ---

"1) The 'latest' 22lr bullet lodged in President Reagan contained a tiny silvery cylinder of explosive. (Lead azide in 'Devastator' cartridges). 2) A highly-resourceful friend sent a 'burst' series of pix featuring President Trump's right ear. ('Dave' knows everything about firearms—I just do the microscope part) In slow motion, an actual bloodless hole is easily seen in one of the frames. The hole is in the middle of the upper, featureless, outer ear. Viewed from President Trump's right side, it appears in the 11 o'clock position.

Never mind. The photos, though quickly posted are possibly photoshoped.


11 posted on 08/21/2025 1:42:26 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Does so
The theory that the US was responsible was promoted widely by a lefty writer.

If the Ukrainians were responsible, then Seymour Hersch's very detailed report was wrong. He wrote that US Navy divers laid the explosives and fuzes to both pipelines and a radio signal from a Norwegian naval helicopter detonated the explosives a few days later.

12 posted on 08/21/2025 2:35:22 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: ransomnote

Oswalding


13 posted on 08/21/2025 2:38:42 PM PDT by A strike (f the UK/MI6 effort to sucker the US into perpetuating their delusion of British world importance)
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To: ransomnote

Ukraine did not destroy that pipeline, lol. Only a few countries in the world have that capability, and Ukraine is NOT one of them. Guaranteed it was the West, probably the U.S.


14 posted on 08/21/2025 3:20:30 PM PDT by GrumpyOldGuy
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To: bitt; little jeremiah

Heads up to RN post upthread


15 posted on 08/21/2025 3:26:33 PM PDT by thinden (Buckle Up!)
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To: GrumpyOldGuy; Right_Wing_Madman

Thank you for the author’s name. (Seymour Hersh).

It’s appalling to me that such a detailed disclosure should EVER appear. It appears there are leaks from US military sources.

Like the Top Secret US Navy activities that I worked in during the Cold War. Those TS secrets suddenly appeared in Time magazine and in a book—in much greater classified detail—written by Tom Clancy). The only source could have been one of my colleagues. (Maybe plied with illegal drugs, which those of us with TS clearances were warned against).

Anyone viewing Biden’s press conference PRIOR to the blast could put the pieces together.


16 posted on 08/22/2025 3:51:31 AM PDT by Does so ("Things will now change in Minneapolis AND AT HOME"....Dem☭¢rat... ∅ one ™ ¿ ¡ ☞ ½¼)
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