Ukrainian President's Office denies Ukraine's involvement in Nord Stream explosion

Mykhailo Podoliak, an adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, denied Ukraine's involvement in the blowing up of Russia's Nord Stream pipeline in the Baltic Sea and blamed the incident on Russia.

Mykhailo Podoliak noted in an interview with Reuters that such an act could only be carried out if there were extensive technical and financial resources.

"And who possessed all this at the time of the bombing? Only Russia," Podoliak said.

"Ukraine has nothing to do with the Nord Stream explosions," Podoliak stressed, adding that Ukraine did not gain any strategic or tactical advantage.

Polish prosecutors said on Wednesday that Poland had received a European arrest warrant issued by Berlin in connection with the blowing up, but the suspect, a Ukrainian national Volodymyr, had already left Poland.

On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Ukrainian officials were involved in the blowing up of Nord Stream. In particular, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy allegedly approved the operation to blow up the pipeline and then tried unsuccessfully to cancel it after an intervention from the CIA. The operation allegedly took place under the supervision of Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.