NATO Chief Refuses To Comment On Reports Linking Ukraine To Nord Stream Blasts

 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday refused to comment on reports linking Ukraine to the blasts on the Nord Stream pipelines, saying that the official investigation into the attacks is still ongoing.

Earlier in the month, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing officials familiar with the matter, that before the bombings, Dutch military intelligence officials had notified the CIA that a Ukrainian sabotage team was seeking a yacht on the Baltic coastline to be used by divers to plant explosives along the Nord Stream pipelines.

"There are ongoing investigations; therefore, I would not draw any final conclusions. What matters is that we know that critical undersea infrastructure as gas pipelines, as oil pipelines and not least all the internet cables, they are critical for our modern societies and they are vulnerable," Stoltenberg said at a joint press conference with German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius at the Jagel Air Base.