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Poland denies connection to Nord Stream sabotage
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Most recently, several media reported, citing investigation findings, that traces of the sabotage should probably lead to Ukraine. Poland served as a base. Warsaw denied.
Poland has denied any connection to the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 Baltic Sea gas pipelines. “Poland has nothing to do with the demolition of Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2,” wrote intelligence coordinator Stanislaw Zaryn’s spokesman on Twitter on Saturday.
There is no reason to associate the country with these events. “The hypothesis remains that the blast was committed by Russia, which had the motive and ability to carry out such an operation.”
The Wall Street Journal previously reported that German investigators were reviewing evidence suggesting the sabotage team used Poland as an operational base. According to the report, a sailing yacht that was targeted by investigators in connection with the attacks entered Polish territorial waters. There are also indications that Poland served as a logistical and financial center for the saboteurs.
Zaryn wrote that various theories about the attacks on the pipelines had been circulating for some time. “This is similar to information noise tactics, the aim of which is to distort the true picture of events.”
The pipelines made it possible to bring Russian gas directly to Germany via the Baltic Sea. At the end of September 2022, a total of four leaks in the two gas pipelines were discovered after explosions near the Danish Baltic Sea island of Bornholm. On October 10, the Federal Public Prosecutor in Germany initiated preliminary proceedings against unknown persons. It is about the suspicion of intentionally causing an explosive explosion and anti-constitutional sabotage.
According to research by German and international media, citing investigative findings, several tracks are now apparently leading in the direction of Ukraine. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office and the Federal Government left these reports largely uncommented last month. The identity of the perpetrators and their motives are the subject of ongoing investigations, said a spokesman for the federal prosecutor in Karlsruhe at the end of May.