Nord Stream sabotage team used Poland as operating base: Report

A new report has revealed that the sabotage team that carried out the attack on Russia’s Nord Stream natural gas pipeline had used Polish territory as its operational base.

German investigators are examining evidence suggesting that the Andromeda yacht may have been involved in the sabotage of the pipelines that supply Russian gas to Europe, the US-based Wall Street Journal daily reported Saturday.

Citing data from the radio and navigation equipment of Andromeda as well as Gmail accounts “and DNA samples left on board, which Germany has tried to match to at least one Ukrainian soldier,” the report further states that the investigators found that the suspected 15-meter-long white pleasure yacht had deviated from its course to venture into Polish territorial waters.

The ship allegedly cruised around each of the locations where the explosions subsequently occurred, they added.

Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office and Poland’s Office of Chancellery of the Prime Minister have declined to comment.

This comes as the Washington Post, citing leaked information, reported on Tuesday that the CIA learned in June 2022 through a European spy agency that a six-person Ukrainian special forces team intended to blow up the pipelines.

On September 26, 2022, three huge gas leaks, preceded by a series of explosions, occurred on both Nord Stream 1 and the newly built Nord Stream 2 pipelines.

Following the blasts, Denmark, Germany, and Sweden conducted investigations, with all three countries having barred Russia from participating in the probes.

Russia points finger at ‘Anglo-Saxons’ in 2022 Nord Stream blasts

The Kremlin uses the term Anglo-Saxons to refer to the United States and Britain.

Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office and Poland’s Office of Chancellery of the Prime Minister have declined to comment.

This comes as the Washington Post, citing leaked information, reported on Tuesday that the CIA learned in June 2022 through a European spy agency that a six-person Ukrainian special forces team intended to blow up the pipelines.

On September 26, 2022, three huge gas leaks, preceded by a series of explosions, occurred on both Nord Stream 1 and the newly built Nord Stream 2 pipelines.

Following the blasts, Denmark, Germany, and Sweden conducted investigations, with all three countries having barred Russia from participating in the probes.

Ukraine denies involvement in Nord Stream blasts; Russia calls US report 'red herring'

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov denies his country

The preliminary results of a joint probe by Sweden and Denmark showed the blasts had been "intentional sabotage," but the responsibility was not assigned to any party.

Moscow has been blaming the West ever since the explosions, calling the attack an act of international terrorism.

Veteran American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh insisted in a detailed report published on his blog earlier this year that the bombing had been directly ordered by US President Joe Biden and carried out by the CIA with the help of the US Navy.

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