Berlin’s Nord Stream Arrest Warrant Smells Fishy. Russian Analyst: “An Operation to Cover Up Real Perpetrators”
The German Federal Public Prosecutor issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian diving instructor suspected of having played a role in sabotaging the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Germany’s Tagesschau reported on August 14.
According to ARD, the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung and the weekly Die Zeit, the last known whereabouts of the suspect, identified as Vladimir Z., were in Poland. German prosecutors are also investigating two other Ukrainian diving instructors, who were identified by German intelligence back in spring, but no arrest warrant has been issued for them yet.
The yacht Andromeda at the center of the German investigation.
Together, the three are suspected to have formed the crew of the yacht Andromeda at the center of the German investigation.
The vessel might have been used for delivering explosives to the natural gas pipelines. In an interview with the SZ, the woman said she had never met with Vladimir Z., claiming to be on vacation in Bulgaria in September 2022. The newspaper could not contact her husband, who is the third and final suspect. While German investigators do not have evidence tying the suspects to the Ukrainian military or government, their online activity clearly shows that the three are pro-Ukrainian, the newspaper insists.
Izvestia has turned to Germany’s justice and interior ministries for comment. The German Interior Ministry refused to issue a statement as it forwarded the request to federal prosecutors, who subsequently also declined to comment. Nor has the country’s embassy in Moscow provided any information.
The situation around the new Ukrainian suspect indicates Germany’s reluctance to change tack, which would have caused a major shift in its foreign policy course.
Russian Analyst: “An information operation aimed at covering up the real perpetrators of this terrorist attack”
According to Maria Khorolskaya, research fellow at the Department for European Political Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences’ Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO RAS), Berlin is looking to shift the focus onto judiciaries to show its probe is independent.
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Furthermore, if third countries are found to have been involved in the attack, Germany would be put in an uncomfortable position, having to take action against them.
“I don’t rule out that Germany has decided to come to the rescue of its senior partners in Washington, while the version adopted by the media and German prosecutors that Ukraine, Poland or even some individuals might have played a role is just an information operation aimed at covering up the real perpetrators of this terrorist attack,“Khorolskaya told Izvestia.
Editor in chief of the Arsenal Otechestva (or Arsenal of the Fatherland) magazine Alexey Leonkov agrees.
He noted to Nezavisimaya Gazeta that well-trained and well-equipped US or British special services were the only ones who could have carried out the deep-sea explosions that rocked such a well-protected gas pipeline.
The expert doubts that the alleged Ukrainian saboteurs played a key role in developing and implementing said operation. According to him, the timing of the latest reports on the issue is perhaps meant to show that Germany is seeking to demonstrate that the probe is almost over and that it can close or even classify the investigation later, as long as the culprits have been identified, albeit not caught.
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