{"id":3558,"date":"2023-05-26T11:23:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T16:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=3558"},"modified":"2023-05-26T11:23:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T16:23:17","slug":"german-investigators-find-nord-stream-evidence-points-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=3558","title":{"rendered":"German Investigators Find Nord Stream Evidence Points To Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-106.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-3559\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-106.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-106.png 800w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-106-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-106-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-106-293x165.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-106-390x219.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Seven months after explosions severed three of Russia\u2019s four Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea,&nbsp;German investigators are now pursuing leads that point to Ukraine&nbsp;as the responsible country.&nbsp;At the same time, a multinational consortium of European&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/german-journalists-investigate-ukrainian-connections-153000753.html\">investigative journalists<\/a>&nbsp;has also found leads pointing to Kiev.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A long-running Western propaganda campaign \u2014 abetted by media that\u2019s credulous at best and complicit at worst \u2014 would have us believe Russia blew up pipelines<\/strong>&nbsp;that took the country 15 years of construction \u2014 and painstaking diplomacy to overcome U.S. interference \u2014 to bring to reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/ukraine-blew-up-nord-stream-2-pipeline-german-fbi-2023-95d58fgkv\"><em>The Times<\/em><\/a>\u00a0of London, Germany\u2019s Federal Office of Criminal Investigation (BKA) has investigated Russian naval movements that have been declared \u201csuspicious,\u201d but\u00a0<strong>found nothing that suggests Moscow is responsible<\/strong>\u00a0for the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather,&nbsp;<strong>BKA investigators are now focusing on a yacht that sailed from the German port of Rostock weeks before the explosions.<\/strong>&nbsp;That 15-meter yacht \u2014 the&nbsp;<em>Andromeda<\/em>&nbsp;\u2014 was hired from a Polish company, and docked at a tiny Danish island near the blast site. Most strikingly,&nbsp;<strong>investigators found traces of \u201cmilitary-grade and underwater-deployable\u201d explosives on the vessel.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the complexity of the operation, the\u00a0<strong>BKA believes a government must have backed the undertaking, and has found evidence pointing to Ukraine,\u00a0<\/strong>via a shell company \u2014 a travel agency \u2014 formed by two Ukrainians in Warsaw. According to the team of journalists, the purported travel agency is one of more than 100 entities listed at a single address. In 2022,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/german-journalists-investigate-ukrainian-connections-153000753.html\">the travel agency, which had a Ukrainian woman named as president, received about $3 million<\/a>\u00a0for no documented reason.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the BKA\u2019s working theory,&nbsp;<strong>five men and one woman with forged Romanian and Bulgarian passports<\/strong>entered Germany before using the yacht as a base for expert divers who planted the charges more than 200 feet below the sea. Germans have identified two other people \u2014 Ukrainians \u2014 who were aboard the vessel. Journalists say one of them is a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/german-journalists-investigate-ukrainian-connections-153000753.html\">Ukraine infantry veteran<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s an intriguingly detailed scenario \u2014 and&nbsp;<strong>quite different from Seymour Hersh\u2019s own&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/nord-stream-sabotage-was-cia-us-navy-covert-op-seymour-hersh-bombshell-prompts-white\">blockbuster<\/a>&nbsp;account<\/strong>. Citing unnamed national security sources, the legendary investigative journalist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/seymourhersh.substack.com\/p\/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;in February that the United States blew up the pipeline, in a plan crafted by the CIA with the cooperation of Norway and executed by US Navy divers deploying from a Norwegian mine-hunting vessel.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0<strong>Hersh has just reported that Ukraine\u2019s neighbor\u2019s are quietly pressuring President Zelensky to find a way to bring the 15-month-old war to an end<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 with some apparently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/seymour-hersh-something-else-cooking-ukraine\">willing to compensate him personally<\/a>\u00a0for doing so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2023\/05\/24\/german-investigators-find-nord-stream-evidence-points-to-ukraine\/\">https:\/\/summit.news\/2023\/05\/24\/german-investigators-find-nord-stream-evidence-points-to-ukraine\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven months after explosions severed three of Russia\u2019s four Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea,&nbsp;German investigators are now pursuing leads that point to Ukraine&nbsp;as the responsible country.&nbsp;At the same time, a multinational consortium of European&nbsp;investigative journalists&nbsp;has also found leads pointing to Kiev.&nbsp; A long-running Western propaganda campaign \u2014 abetted by media that\u2019s credulous at best and complicit at worst \u2014 would have us believe Russia blew up pipelines&nbsp;that took the country 15 years of construction \u2014 and painstaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ukraine-russia-war"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3560,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions\/3560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}