SHIPS AND CIA TIP-OFFS
Investigative journalists have been finishing up their very own analysis to resolve the Nord Stream whodunnit, resulting in typically sensational – if unconfirmed – experiences.
Dutch navy intelligence warned the CIA of a Ukrainian plan to explode the pipelines three months earlier than the assault, Dutch broadcaster NOS and Germany’s Die Zeit and ARD stated in June. The Washington Publish made the same declare.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly denied his nation was behind the sabotage.
“I’d by no means try this,” he informed Germany’s Bild newspaper in June, including that he would “wish to see proof”.
The New York Occasions wrote in March that US officers had seen intelligence indicating {that a} “pro-Ukrainian group” was accountable, with out Zelenskyy’s data.
German media have focussed their consideration on the “Andromeda”, with reporters from Der Spiegel journal and broadcaster ZDF recreating the journey they imagine was made by the six-person crew.
In keeping with their reporting, a cast passport used to rent the sailboat leads again to a Ukrainian soldier whereas the constitution price was paid by an organization registered in Poland with ties to a lady in Kyiv.
Nonetheless, Danish media have reported {that a} Russian naval vessel specialised in submarine operations, the SS-750, was photographed close to the positioning of the blasts days earlier than the assault.
A declare by US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh in February that the US was behind the assaults and that Norway assisted was dismissed as “fiction” by the White Home.
FALSE FLAG
Specialists haven’t dominated out a “false flag” operation by Russia, with clues intentionally positioned to pin the blame on Ukraine.
Andreas Umland, an analyst on the Stockholm Centre for Jap European Research, sees Russia as “the most definitely” wrongdoer.
Any suspected involvement by Kyiv in an assault on Europe’s power infrastructure may threaten the help of allies, which might profit Russia.
On the similar time, the destroyed pipelines may assist Gazprom keep away from compensation claims for undelivered gasoline, despite the fact that the corporate displayed a reluctance to maintain the faucets open earlier than the blasts.
Moscow might have sought “to kill two birds with one stone”, Umland stated.
The Kremlin has strongly denied duty.
