Poland provides Nord Stream sabotage clues. The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday that German investigators are looking into evidence that a sabotage squad used Poland as a base to disrupt Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea in September.
The newspaper reported that German detectives rebuilt the two-week cruise of the “Andromeda,” a 50-foot (15-meter) white pleasure yacht suspected of sabotaging Russian gas pipelines to Europe.
“Andromeda’s radio and navigation equipment, satellite and mobile phones, Gmail accounts, and DNA samples left aboard, which Germany has tried to match to at least one Ukrainian soldier” showed that the yacht deviated from its target to enter Polish waters, it said.
Reuters received no immediate response from Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office or Poland’s Office of Chancellery of the Prime Minister.
The Washington Post revealed that the U.S. knew of a Ukrainian plan to target the pipelines three months before underwater explosions damaged them.
German media reported Wednesday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy denied attacking Nord Stream pipelines.
Sweden and Denmark suffered economic blasts. Both countries acknowledged the blasts were premeditated but have not identified the perpetrator.
The Wall Street Journal said investigators found HMX, also known as octogen, a colorless explosive designed to damage undersea infrastructure.
In March, German media suggested a Ukrainian-owned yacht from Poland was involved in the attack.
The Journal reported that the sabotage group laid deep-sea explosives on Nord Stream 1 before steering their Bavaria 50 Cruiser toward Poland.
The newspaper reported that Andromeda chartered from a German firm near the pipelines, sailed north to fulfill its duty and plant mines on Nord Stream 2.
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