Underwater video shows extensive damage to Nord Stream 1 pipeline. At least 50 metres of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline has been destroyed or buried under the seafloor, following an explosion assumed to be from sabotage.
Russia 's Nord Stream pipelines suffered a sabotage attack in September 2022Senior Ukrainian military officers hatched the daring plan to blow up Russia 's Nord Stream gas pipelines during 'a night of heavy boozing', an investigation has claimed.
'I always laugh when I read media speculation about some huge operation involving secret services, submarines, drones and satellites,' the officer said. Ukrainian general Valery Zaluzhny, former armed forces commander-in-chief and now ambassador to the UK, allegedly told the crew to carry out the attack on Nord Stream even after Zelensky got cold feet
Instead, a simpler plan was devised involving a six-person team who would use a small sailing boat - the Andromeda - to carry out the mission, supposedly with help from a Polish travel agency linked to Ukrainian intelligence. The team considered aborting the mission but decided to press on once the weather cleared, successfully navigating the Baltic Sea's dark, icy waters to reach the pipelines where they planted powerful HMX explosives.'I did nothing like that. I would never do that,' he said in an interview with Germany's BILD.
Zaluzhny himself dismissed these claims made by the WSJ as 'a mere provocation', as Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak denied his country's involvement and instead pointed the finger at Russia. 'It is difficult to believe that, if Ukraine indeed planned this operation at the highest level, no communication took place with the German side.
Ukrainian suspects are accused of transporting the explosives used in the attack in a 50ft sailing yacht called the Andromeda, according to investigations conducted by Germany and revealed by German media German government spokesman Wolfgang Buechner sought to make it clear that the investigation would not interfere with Germany's support of Ukraine in its war against Russia, nor would it harm bilateral relations.
German investigators believe Volodymyr Z, a Ukrainian diving instructor, was part of a team that planted the explosives. The blasts wrecked three out of four Nord Stream pipelines, which had become a controversial symbol of German reliance on Russian gas in the wake of Moscow 's invasion of Ukraine, and triggered wild speculation over the possible culprit
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