The media learned about the Ukrainian trace in the case of undermining the “Nord Streams”

In the case of the Nord Stream bombing, there is growing evidence that attackers linked to Ukraine may be behind the attack. About it report Spiegel magazine and ZDF TV channel, citing sources familiar with the investigation.

According to media reports, the findings of the investigators clearly point to Ukraine. At the same time, the federal prosecutor’s office in Germany is still officially investigating.

Spiegel and ZDF note that the Andromeda yacht remains the focus of the investigation. A source in the security services said that the criminals were in Ukraine before and after the pipelines were blown up. The investigation came to this conclusion after evaluating the “technical data”. The publications admit that the investigation also has video recordings showing the alleged perpetrators.

Several months before the incident, Dutch military intelligence received a warning about a planned attack, according to Spiegel and ZDF. According to available data, six Ukrainians wanted to undermine Nord Stream. The source claimed that this could happen in mid-June 2022 during NATO exercises in the Baltic Sea. During this period, the attack did not occur, so the German authorities did not take additional measures to protect the pipelines, the German media learned.

13 June Dutch NOS and Nieuwsuur and German Die Zeit and ARD published a joint investigation alleging that the US CIA was informed of Ukraine’s plans to blow up Nord Stream in June 2022 and warned Kyiv against the move. According to The Wall Street Journal, the CIA believed that Kyiv abandoned plans to organize sabotage after the warning.

For the first time about the involvement of the “pro-Ukrainian group” in sabotage at the Nord Stream in March informed The New York Times. At the same time, Die Zeit stated that a Ukrainian ship could have been involved in the sabotage, on which traces of explosives were found. Kremlin doubted in these data and called the messages “coordinated stuffing.”

At the same time, journalist Seymour Hersh claimsthat the United States and Norway were involved in the incident. The White House and the European Commission called this information unreliable. Russian President Vladimir Putin a few days after the explosion in the fall of 2022 accused in what happened “Anglo-Saxons”.