These media emphasize that there are no indications that the Kiev government has approved the operation.
A joint investigation by several German media has stated that the investigations carried out by the German authorities into the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines have found traces leading to Ukraine, the same day that the newspaper “The New York Times” published similar information .
German investigators have managed to reconstruct how the blast was carried out and, according to media, have identified a ship allegedly used in the operation, leased by a Poland-based company owned by two Ukrainian citizens, including the public chain ” ARD”. .
According to this version, the placement of the explosives was carried out by a six-person team, consisting of a captain, two divers, two diving assistants and a doctor, whose nationality has not been clarified, as they used fake passports to rent the boat.
According to these sources, this team departed from the German port of Rostock (north) on September 6 and could be located the next day on the peninsula of Darss (northeast) and later on the Danish island of Christianso.
Investigators are said to have found traces of explosives on one of the tables of the yacht, which was returned to the owner’s company uncleaned.
According to sources from the security services of various European countries consulted by the German media, a Western secret service already informed the allied countries shortly after the attack in September that “a Ukrainian commando” was responsible for the destruction.
Later, other clues to that effect appeared, although for the time being there is no evidence about the intellectual authorship or who ordered the destruction of the gas pipelines, the “ARD” investigation points out.
Therefore, in international security circles, it cannot be ruled out that it could be a “false flag operation”, i.e. that the perpetrator has deliberately created clues that point to Ukraine as the culprit.
Also the New York Times
The newspaper “The New York Times” today quotes US intelligence sources as confirming evidence pointing to a pro-Ukrainian group in opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin, while at the same time emphasizing that there is no evidence that the Kiev is the government was aware of the operation or approved it.
The Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines were not carrying gas when they were blown up, as Russia had cut gas flow through the former all summer, officially due to technical problems, while the latter never came online.
The countries bordering the Baltic Sea have all claimed deliberate sabotage, but so far there has been no official statement on the results of the investigations.
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