According to a report by the Wall Street Journal on Saturday (June 6), evidence shows that a sabotage team may have been based in Poland and blew up the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea in September last year.
Reports indicate that German investigators are reconstructing the two-week sailing route of the yacht "Andromeda" suspected of being involved in the Nord Stream pipeline explosion. The report quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that the sabotage team placed deep-sea explosives on Nord Stream 1 and then sailed the yacht towards Poland. The report also stated that Germany was trying to compare DNA samples collected on the ship to "at least one Ukrainian soldier."
It is reported that after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 2022, 2, Europe’s dependence on Russian natural gas instantly became the political focus. The destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline accelerated the region's shift to other energy suppliers.
Washington PostCiting leaked intelligence information posted online earlier this week, the United States knew about Ukraine's plans to sabotage the Nord Stream pipeline three months before the explosion. The explosion occurred in the exclusive economic zones of Sweden and Denmark.
Previously, Sweden and Denmark both said that the explosion was caused by human factors, but they have not yet determined who was behind it. German media pointed out that a Polish company yacht owned by Ukrainian citizens may have participated in the attack. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy clarified to the German media on the 7th of this month that Ukraine was not involved in attacking the Nord Stream pipeline.
The Federal Criminal Police Office and the Polish Prime Minister's Office have not yet responded to Reuters' inquiries.