If the Ukraine president knew about any attack on the pipeline what would that say about his judgment
… If he did not know about it – reports in the German and American press suggest it was an off-the-books operation by a small group of mavericks unconnected to the government – then how did private individuals access that much explosive?
Mr Zelensky may be diplomatically savvy. But there are people in the Ukrainian intelligence and military apparatus with a blunter appetite for action and fewer inhibitions about allies’ opinions.
Last week, a Russian volunteer unit led by a prominent neo-Nazi mounted a brief but massively self-publicised raid across the border into Russia’s Bryansk region – to no obvious military advantage.
I bet Freeland knows.
