Ukraine has been appointed the scapegoat in the Nord Stream sabotage investigation. The one in Kiev to be left holding the bag has been anyone’s guess so far. The German and US press are playing up in this context.

Germany has issued an arrest warrant for a certain Ukrainian with regard to the case of blasts at Nord Stream. The suspects are divers from Ukraine who allegedly mined two of its strands and blew them off on September 26, 2022, as reported by Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit, and ARD, as part of their joint investigation.

An arrest warrant has been issued, in particular, for a certain Polish-based Vladimir S.. And the Germans allegedly do not understand why there have been no answers from the Polish side to their legal assistance request, and why the Polish authorities have not yet arrested that guy. German outlets write that "investigators have two more Ukrainian suspects, including a woman." They are deemed as "allegedly involved in sabotage and might have attached explosives to pipelines as divers." This group is reported to have used a rented minor yacht Andromeda in their scheme.

"The extent Ukrainian government agencies may have been involved in the preparation and execution of the sabotage remains unclear. In the case of Vladimir S. and the other two suspects, the investigation has not revealed direct links to the military or secret services," the German media write. They even say: "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has denied his government’s involvement in the attack."

And yet, the German investigators’ “knowledge gap” about the involvement of Ukrainian officials in the Baltic Sea sabotage was bridged by the American Wall Street Journal newspaper. According to the utterly "accurate data" obtained from unnamed American, Ukrainian and European sources, the order to undermine Nord Streams came from former AFU commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny. He allegedly "violated Vladimir Zelensky's direct instruction to halt the operation."

According to the newspaper, Zelensky had initially given the green light to the idea, making Zaluzhny the one in charge, with all the orders transmitted orally to leave no trace at all.  Subsequently, "the CIA demanded that Zelensky's office stop the operation," the WSJ writes. Zelensky did supposedly pass the order to Zaluzhny, but later chose to ignore it.

In his turn, Zaluzhny, who has been appointed Ukraine’s ambassador in London, denies any involvement in the Nord Stream sabotage, the outlet found out.

So, what are we dealing with? Without much foreplay, let's say: all of this is downright nonsense, an information jiggery-pokery by the Americans seeking to deflect suspicion from themselves. The issue of the culprit in the terrorist attack is yet to get sorted once and for all, and the United States is thus willing to drop the inquiry.

One needs to understand that a complex attack of the kind requires the forces and means of a navy, not lone terrorists who allegedly used a light yacht for this.

This is not for the first time that the true masterminds and perpetrators are passing the buck onto some "Ukrainians". Ordinary Westerners may easily believe this, though it is not them who are targets of the entire provocation. This version will be taken as law by every single NATO government as Washington simply ordered Berlin to close investigation and report on finding the "perpetrators" somewhere in Ukraine.

Moreover, if they "prove" that official Kiev was involved in that terrorist attack, the United States and the West would get formal reason to disown Zelensky for endorsing an act of international terrorism, something condemned by the entire world. Zaluzhny may also become a scapegoat. It all depends on US conveniency in terms of information.

Small wonder that Zelensky and Zaluzhny have publicly denied their engagement in the sabotage, well aware of how this may threaten them. Whether Zelensky withdrew his order to blow up the pipeline or not, he is still accountable for his subordinates’ activities. And Zaluzhny is under attack in any case as the one who executed the order.

For example, leader of the Kosovo thugs Hashim Thaci and a number of his henchmen had once been where Zelensky and Zaluzhny are today. In the 90s, Thaci and his troops followed orders by their American curators, organizing a genocide of Serbs in Kosovo and tearing the region away from Serbia. But a couple of years ago, by ruling of an ad hoc European body, Hashim Thaci and some of his associates were arrested to be tried for war crimes. Thaci was no longer needed by the US for being too odious. The same prospect looms over Zelensky, Zaluzhny and other functionaries of the Kiev regime.

Thus, the Americans will kill two birds with one stone: clear themselves of suspicion of orchestrating an act of international terrorism and get rid of Zelensky as a hindrance.