Report: Zelenskyy Approved Plot to Blow Up Nord Stream Pipelines

The Facts

• Ukrainian Pres. Volodymyr Zelenskyy allegedly approved the plan to blow up Russia's Nord Stream pipelines. However, according to the Wall Street Journal report, after the CIA learned of the alleged operation and called on the Ukrainian leader to pull the plug, he called it off.

• But according to the sources who spoke to the Journal — said to include four Ukrainian military and intelligence officials with knowledge of the alleged plans — Ukraine's military leader at the time, Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, now the country's ambassador to Britain, went ahead regardless.

• Once the attack was executed, other sources said that Zelenskyy chastized Zaluzhnyi. However, the former general is said to have brushed off the criticisms, stating that it was too late to change course as the team had gone incommunicado and could not be reached without jeopardizing the operation.