Advisor to Zelensky: Kyiv "Not Involved At All" in Nord Stream Attack

In the first Ukrainian response to a report by The New York Times, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's advisor, Mykhailo Podolyak, stated on Tuesday that Kyiv is "not involved at all" in last year's attacks on the Nord Stream pipeline and has no information about what occurred. Podolyak told Reuters, "From the very first day of the construction of the pipelines in the Baltic Sea, Ukraine has been alerting its Western partners to the increasing strategic risks to Europe's security posed by this project." He added that Ukraine has no information about who was directly involved, but believes that what he described as Russian efforts to destabilize the region may be responsible for the attack.