US had prior intelligence of Ukrainian plan to attack Nord Stream pipelines: Report

The United States was reportedly told by a European spy agency that the Ukrainian military planned to attack the Nord Stream gas pipelines covertly three months before they were bombed.

The intelligence would mean that, for nearly a year, the U.S. and other European allies had a basis to suspect Kyiv in the sabotage.

The intelligence was first shared with the CIA in June 2022 by a European intelligence service with close ties to the U.S. The report was shared on the chat platform Discord allegedly by Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira, who is accused of leaking a tranche of top-secret government documents on the platform.

The report said the divers who had planned to carry out the attack were all members of Ukraine’s special military forces team and reported directly to the commander in chief of the Ukrainian armed services.