Zaluzhny blames Zelensky. German Media Nord Stream report claims CIA and Zaluzhny knew
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🗓️ 21 February 2026
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Zaluzhny blames Zelensky. German Media Nord Stream report claims CIA and Zaluzhny knew
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's do an update on the diplomacy that appears to be taken place |
| 0:05.0 | with Project Ukraine. |
| 0:07.0 | And we can also talk about an update on Nord Stream, or at least a German Spiegel, an investigative |
| 0:16.0 | report on Nord Stream, which claims that the Ukrainian team, this team of divers, consulted the CIA in early |
| 0:27.2 | 2022, and the CIA said, yeah, go for it. It looks good. We like it. They said, and then the CIA |
| 0:34.5 | changed their mind, and they tried to talk the Ukrainian divers |
| 0:39.1 | out of it. |
| 0:40.4 | And they were, well, they weren't going to provide money. |
| 0:42.6 | Anyway, a whole story about Nord Stream. |
| 0:45.2 | We'll get into it as the video goes along. |
| 0:47.2 | Let's start things off with post-Geneva talks, Medinsky's tough position with Ukraine, the two-hour meeting that developed |
| 0:59.5 | after the talks concluded, Meddinsky went back and I believe now we know that he had a |
| 1:06.0 | closed-door meeting with Umerov and Arrahamia. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.6 | And no Americans at this meeting. |
| 1:14.6 | So anyway, let's start off there and we'll work our way towards North Stream. |
| 1:18.6 | Right. Well, I think the first thing to say is that there was a lot of speculation about what would happen at the Geneva meeting. |
| 1:25.6 | Many people said that Medinsky had been sent there basically to capitulate to the Americans |
| 1:31.4 | and to agree to all the American demands and all of that, |
| 1:34.4 | and that there would be a deal done, which would be favorable to the US and to Ukraine. |
| 1:40.9 | There was lots of speculation about this big deal that Dmitrieff was negotiating |
| 1:46.8 | with Witkoff. The economists published this story that the Russians were offering a $12 trillion |
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