Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday there were no longer “moral constraints” preventing Moscow from destroying its enemies’ underwater communications cables, accusing the West of being behind the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions, Reuters reported.

American and Dutch media reported that Washington knew about the alleged Ukrainian plot to blow up the Nord Stream gas pipelines. Kyiv denied their destruction.

Dutch military intelligence in 2022 warned the CIA about a possible Ukrainian plan to blow up the Nord Stream gas pipelines three months before they were struck, Dutch public broadcaster NOS reported on Tuesday, according to CNN.

The discovery was made after a joint investigation by Dutch television NOS and German publications Die Zeit and ARD, news.ro reports.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Tuesday that the CIA warned Ukraine last year against attacking the Nord Stream gas pipeline after receiving information about an alleged Ukrainian plan, citing officials familiar with the information exchange.

NOS reported that the MIVD, the military intelligence service of the Netherlands, managed to collect detailed information at an early stage about Ukraine’s alleged plot to blow up the pipelines. MIVD offered no comment to NOS, the broadcaster said.

The intended sabotage in June 2022 would have been canceled, but in September Nord Stream was blown up. According to NOS, the scenario would be almost identical to the one exposed by MIVD three months ago.

Last September, unexplained explosions ruptured the newly constructed Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines that transport gas from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea.

The attack on the pipelines last September was condemned by both US officials and Western allies as sabotage of critical infrastructure. He is currently being investigated by other European countries.

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