The authorship of the acts of sabotage against the Russian gas pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2, the first of which carried gas to Europe through Germany, remains a mystery after seven months and despite the multiple investigations carried out in this regard. However, this Friday the newspaper Information has published information that could be key to determining who was behind the sabotage that put the Baltic countries on alert.
According to the Danish newspaper, the Danish Navy sighted a Russian special vessel in the area near where the Russian gas pipelines were sabotaged four days before they were blown up.
According to the Ministry of Defense, a Danish ship took 26 photographs of the SS-750 ship on September 22, equipped to carry out underwater operations and which had a mini-submarine on board. However, they have not given more details, alluding to the investigation that is underway.
In total, two leaks were located in each gas pipeline (both out of service and located in the Baltic), two in the Danish area and two in the Swedish area, all in international waters, which the affected governments soon described as “sabotage”, in addition to point to a state actor as guilty.
Although the German, Swedish and Danish authorities, in addition to the Russian ones, have carried out several investigations, they have not disclosed any progress in this regard. In addition, there seems to be no consensus on who is responsible for the damage, although all the countries, those of the European Union, the United States and Russia, agree in speaking of sabotage.
Moscow has accused “Anglo-Saxon” countries of being behind it, alluding to Washington’s opposition to the project for years and its threats to stop it by any means if Russia intervened militarily in Ukraine, while some Western countries have pointed in the opposite direction.
An investigation by American journalist Seymour Hersh targeted US intelligence weeks ago, with the collaboration of Norway and other Western countries. In turn, media from the United States and Germany later pointed to a pro-Ukrainian group as the possible perpetrator of the sabotage.
