(updated with details)
June 10 (Reuters) – German investigators are examining clues suggesting that the perpetrators of the Nord Stream gas pipeline sabotage used Poland as a base to plan their operation, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
German investigators have fully reconstructed the two-week voyage of the “Andromeda”, a yacht suspected of being involved in the sabotage of gas pipelines, according to the newspaper.
They determined that the yacht had deviated from its course plan to venture into Polish waters, reports the WSJ. “DNA traces were found on board, traces which Germany tried to match to at least one Ukrainian soldier.”
Neither Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office nor the office of the Polish Prime Minister’s Chancellery immediately responded to a request for comment.
The Washington Post reported this week that the United States learned of a Ukrainian plan to sabotage the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, which run under the Baltic Sea between Russia and Germany, three months before they were damaged by explosions last September. (Report Shivani Tanna in Bangalore; French version Camille Raynaud)
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