An email chartering the vessel allegedly used in the pipeline attack came from the war-torn country, according to investigators
German “Der Spiegel” reported on Friday, citing sources, that Ukrainian nationals were reportedly involved in email metadata from chartered yachts in the Nord Stream pipeline bombing last year.
In March, the outlet claimed that a yacht named Andromeda was allegedly used by a team of divers to sabotage the Nord Stream pipeline. The publication cited traces of explosives found in the cabin and false identification documents used while chartering the boat.
New report from Der Spiegel suggests metadata in emails sent to look up yacht charters “The way to Ukraine.” According to German broadcasters NDR and WDR and other media sources in EU countries, the president of a putative shell company that chartered the yacht is also living in Kiev.
Der Spiegel also claimed on Friday that investigators were looking into whether the attack might have been carried out by a separate Ukrainian commando group, or whether the sabotage might have been authorized by Kiev. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian government has denied any link to the blast.
No group (state agency or otherwise) has so far acknowledged responsibility for the September bombings, which came shortly after Moscow imposed a wave of sanctions on Russia over its military actions in Ukraine, cutting gas supplies to Europe Happened afterwards.
In February, Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, detailed evidence he claimed Washington was linked to the attacks in a sweeping report that he said were carried out alongside Norwegian data.
Moscow – accused by some in the West of planning the bombing as a “false flag” incident – summoned the ambassadors of Germany, Sweden and Denmark on Thursday to protest what the Russian Foreign Ministry said “No result at all” While investigating the source of the explosion.
“It has been noted that these countries are not interested in establishing the true circumstances of this devastation,” A spokesman for Moscow’s foreign ministry said on Thursday, adding that investigators were delaying their efforts and trying to “Hide Footprints” The real perpetrator.
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