• Optional@lemmy.world
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        7 hours ago

        Except for the German federal prosecutors, Dutch officials, former Ukranian commander in chief, and the sabotage team themselves, I suppose you’re right.

        Days after the attack, in October 2022, Germany’s foreign secret service received a second tipoff about the Ukrainian plot from the CIA, which again passed on a report by the Dutch military intelligence agency MIVD. It offered a detailed account of the attack, including the type of boat used and the possible route taken by the crew, according to German and Dutch officials.

        Inasumuch as you can have a source for a covert operation after the fact.

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          6 hours ago

          Can you link the direct source - like, statement of german police or official press conference?

          I’ve spent some time looking into this and found no direct sources.

          BTW, these articles are copypaste - There were bunch of much older (2023?) ones which I also failed to find any credible source for.

          EDIT: Correction, the first articles about this came out 3 months ago

          The part about Zelenski ordering sabotage while drunk has both no source and is utterly ridiculous.

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            4 hours ago

            The part about Zelenski ordering sabotage while drunk has both no source and is utterly ridiculous.

            I agree. I also didn’t see it in the article -?

            If you want to find German federal prosecutor records, or Dutch itelligence reports - I’m not sure where to go for those.

            It pains me to say this but the WSJ, while being a Murdoch rag and certainly guilty of ridiculous bias in the way it reports things, isn’t really known for making up things whole cloth like the Daily Mail or something.