New reports in recent weeks have suggested that Ukrainian operatives may have been behind the September 2022 attack in the Baltic Sea, which ruptured multiple strands of the controversial Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline.
Pavel, a key ally of Ukraine in its fight against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invading forces, wasn’t particularly bothered if Kyiv did blow up the pipeline.
“When an armed conflict is waged, it is waged not only against military objectives, but also against objectives of a strategic nature. And pipelines are a strategic goal,” Pavel said Wednesday on the PoliTalk podcast.
Underlining that he had no “incriminating clear information that it was really Ukraine who was behind the attack,” the Czech president theorized that “if the attack was aimed at cutting off gas and oil supplies to Europe and money [flowing] back to Russia, then — and I am deliberately using a conditional verb — that would be a legitimate goal.”
“But I don’t have that information,” he added.
