Mystery Solved: Night of ‘Heavy Boozing’ Almost Led to WWIII

A group of Ukrainian businessmen financed the notorious September 2022 attack that sabotaged the Nord Stream pipeline network, plunged Europe into an energy crisis and—at one point—threatened to spark World War III.

A high-ranking Ukrainian general coordinated the plan. And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed off on it—that is until the CIA got wind and warned him to stand down.

After Zelenskyy tried to call off the attack, hatched at a boozy May 2022 gathering of military and business elites, Ukraine’s former top general Valerii Zaluzhnyi “ignored the order” and pressed on. Two undersea pipelines bringing natural gas from Russia to Germany were ultimately sabotaged.

Read more at The Daily Beast.