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 Specifically, according to information from the ARD capital studio, Kontraste, SWR and ZEIT, the investigators succeeded in identifying the boat that was allegedly used for the secret operation. It is said to be a yacht rented from a company based in Poland, apparently owned by two Ukrainians. According to the investigation, the secret operation at sea was carried out by a team of six people. It is said to have been five men and one woman. Accordingly, the group consisted of a captain, two divers, two diving assistants and a doctor, who are said to have transported the explosives to the crime scenes and placed them there. The nationality of the perpetrators is apparently unclear. The assassins used professionally forged passports, which are said to have been used, among other things, to rent the boat.

Nord Stream, or the fake news of the century between the USA and Germany, 03.08.2023.

The New York Times and Die Zeit 'report' on the perpetrators of the attacks against the Nord Stream.

Nord Stream: Suddenly, the 'truth' is out

According to The New York Times, a pro-Ukrainian group carried out the attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines. Meanwhile, on the same day the German newspaper Die Zeit, has published that German investigators identified the vessel that allegedly participated in the attack on the gas pipelines, noting that "the tracks lead in the direction of Ukraine." Everything is published four days after the meeting in Washington between US President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "It is clear that the perpetrators of the terrorist attack want to divert attention. It is clear that this is a coordinated media hoax." Meanwhile, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on her Telegram channel: "I wonder who allows such leaks to fill the information space. The answer: those who do not want to conduct an investigation in a legal sphere, and are going to divert the public's attention from the facts in every possible way."

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The West wanted to make Ukrainians guilty of the attack on Nord Stream, by Daria Volkova for VZGLYAD. 03.09.2023.

Experts pointed to the inconsistency of the version about Ukrainian enthusiasts who blew up the Nord Streams.

The Western press suddenly began to reveal the details of the terrorist attack on the Nord Streams. The Americans, and then the Germans and the British, unanimously supported the version that a group of Ukrainian conspirators was behind this, and the Western countries had absolutely nothing to do with it. Why can't this version be considered valid and what caused such attempts by the West to blame everything on Kyiv?

On Tuesday evening, the Western press suddenly broke into reports about the "revealed details" of the terrorist attack on the Nord Stream in September last year. Thus, the American newspaper  New York Times  (NYT), citing its sources and intelligence data, writes that the “pro-Ukrainian group” could have blown up the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines.

At the same time, the newspaper notes, “US officials said they had no evidence that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky or his aides were involved in the operation.” “Or that the criminals acted on the instructions of Ukrainian officials,” they write in the material.

NYT interlocutors also claim that the explosives could have been planted with the help of experienced divers who had not previously worked for the military or intelligence services, but had received special training. Intelligence believes that the sabotage was carried out by some pro-Ukrainian group, which includes both citizens of Ukraine and Russia.

Unnamed officials indicated that US and British citizens did not take part in the attack on the highways. They also found no evidence of Russian involvement. At the same time, NYT interlocutors pointed to "huge gaps" in the case of sabotage at Nord Stream in the American and European intelligence communities, but new data "may be the first significant clue." At the same time, as the newspaper emphasizes, any suggestion of involvement in the explosions of Ukraine, whether direct or indirect, "may disrupt the difficult relationship between Ukraine and Germany, undermining the support of the German public."

Following this  , the German newspaper  Die Zeit  reported that an investigation in Germany had identified a vessel that could have been involved in the Nord Stream bombings, traces leading to Ukraine. According to investigators, the vessel was leased by a company based in Poland and likely owned by two Ukrainian citizens. Presumably, we are talking about a yacht.

According to the German investigation, a group of six people participated in the "secret operation": five men and a woman.

According to Die Zeit, the nationality of the band members is unknown, and they used fake passports to rent a boat. It is alleged that the equipment for the yacht was delivered to the port in advance by truck. The ship left the German city of Rostock on September 6, 2022, and traces of explosives were found in the cabin of the yacht.

In addition, Die Zeit claims that Western intelligence officers handed over to European services a notification about the involvement of the Ukrainian side in the explosions back in the fall. Investigators have not yet been able to find out who ordered the sabotage, but they admit that the evidence leading to Ukraine could have been falsified.

After that, the British also spoke out: The Times published an article from which it follows that the intelligence of Western countries knows the name of the alleged Ukrainian “sponsor” of sabotage at Nord Stream. According to the publication, the special services did not disclose this information so as not to provoke a conflict between Ukraine and Germany, since at that time the FRG was supposed to supply Ukraine with weapons, including Leopard 2 tanks and IRIS-T air defense systems.

The newspaper, without citing sources, claims that the sabotage was carried out “not by Americans, Russians or Poles” and was a private initiative of a Ukrainian businessman not associated with the government of Volodymyr Zelensky. Allegedly, a private Ukrainian sponsor funded the operation to blow up the gas pipelines out of his own pocket, including renting a vessel, hiring elite divers, forged passports and purchasing shaped explosive charges available only to the gas and oil industry. The author of the article is Maxim Tucker, he works from Kyiv.

Recall that the American journalist Seymour Hersh, in his article, citing an unnamed source, said that American divers installed  explosives under the Nord Streams during the Baltops NATO exercises in the summer of 2022  . Allegedly, Washington  feared that Berlin would "lift sanctions because of the cold winter." Hersh later said that from the very beginning  he considered  the United States the main suspect in the attack.

Russia February 22  convened  a meeting of the UN Security Council on sabotage. At the meeting, an American diplomat  said that "the accusations of US involvement in these acts of sabotage are a complete lie."

In Russia, the new details from Western intelligence reacted unambiguously and extremely negatively. Thus, the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov  said that publications about the explosions at Nord Stream are a coordinated stuffing in the media, so the authors of the attack want to divert attention.

Russian diplomat Andrey Ledenev,  whose words  are quoted by the Russian Embassy in Washington, in his  Telegram channel noted that the NYT publication instantly received a green light in the American information field, which is especially noteworthy given the attempts to openly silence Seymour Hersh's resonant material. Ledenev also recalled the US administration's opposition to the launch of an independent investigation into this act of international terrorism against critical energy infrastructure.

In turn, Senator Alexei Pushkov  called  the NYT article about the guilt of the pro-Ukrainian group in undermining the Nord Streams an unsuccessful attempt at disinformation. Pushkov noted on his Telegram channel that the United States intelligence is trying to turn away all reasonable accusations against the United States of undermining the Nord Stream and transfer them to some vague "pro-Ukrainian groups" that, even if they existed, would not have the technical ability to carry out such an operation.

Military analyst Mikhail Onufrienko, in his  Telegram channel, pointed out the degree of “uninhibited thought” in the Western version of “Ukrainian secret amateur divers” who blew up Nord Stream. The expert questions the ability of four men and one woman to find gas pipelines filled with a concrete cushion at a depth of 90 meters under water, install about 800 kg of explosives and still go unnoticed.

American political scientist Dmitry Drobnitsky called the NYT's attempt to "blame pipeline explosions on some private initiative as extremely unconvincing." In his opinion, the basis here is not even a technical component, but a motivational one.

“But for the White House, the main thing is that the answer to Seymour Hersh is heard in the public field, and it doesn’t matter whether it is convincing or not,” he explained.

“The NYT article is intended not so much to emphasize the uncontrollability of the Ukrainian side as much as to disguise the uncontrollability of the United States. The Nord Stream explosion was the result of squabbles in the White House. At the same time, the authors seem to say: “We are not to blame, these are Ukrainians. But Zelensky has nothing to do with it either.” And so on, - added the expert. - It looks like the US Democratic Party is trying to smooth things over, but they are unlikely to succeed. You will see that in the near future several more articles about Nord Streams will be published, and one is more interesting than the other. The opposing factions in the United States will rock this topic,” the analyst predicted.

“In addition, the story of the terrorist attack can be used against Zelensky when he becomes an asset completely unusable for the United States. Therefore, I think the main information struggle around the Nord Streams is still ahead,” the interlocutor believes.

In turn, energy expert Igor Yushkov notes that “it is now extremely beneficial for the United States and, in particular, the Biden administration to shift all the blame for this incident to Ukraine.” “There is a certain consensus in the West that Kyiv has the moral right to do whatever it wants and hit Russia wherever they can. Including shooting unarmed prisoners of war contrary to all international conventions,” said an expert from the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation and the National Energy Security Fund.

“It turns out that everything boils down to the fact that if you blame Ukraine for something, then no one will turn their tongues to scold them or somehow punish them. After what happened, Germany or any other European country will stop providing assistance to Kyiv? No, they won't stop. This is an absolutely convenient option for the United States to put an end to this story,” he said.

“At the same time, it is quite obvious that the hype in the information field, caused by the investigation of journalist Seymour Hersh, and our desire to convene a meeting of the UN Security Council forced the Americans to look for an informational way out of the situation. It was impossible to leave all this unanswered, so they tried to turn the story into a direction that would suit the White House, ”concluded Yushkov.

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Keep it that way even when the collective west gives up and drops some of their stupid sanctions

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Hersh: Scholz has been helping the US hide data on the state of emergency at Nord Stream since autumn. 03.22.2023.

Hersh: German Chancellor Scholz has been helping the United States to hide data on the undermining of Nord Stream since autumn.

MOSCOW, March 22 - RIA Novosti. Since autumn, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has supported Washington's attempts to hide information about the Nord Stream explosions, American journalist Seymour Hersh said , citing a source.

According to him, today the question remains whether the German politician knew in advance about the sabotage. Nevertheless, he is somehow involved in the attempts of the United States to withhold information, the journalist stressed.

“At this point, it should be noted that Chancellor Scholz <...> has been clearly implicated since last fall in supporting the Biden administration’s cover-up of its operation in the Baltic Sea,” he wrote in a material on the Substack platform.

Hersh recalled that in early March, the German chancellor visited the United States. His trip included only two public events, and neither Scholz nor US President Joe Biden held press conferences with questions from journalists. However, as Hersh noted, later it became known about the 80-minute meeting of the two leaders, which most of the time was not even attended by assistants. At the end of the conversation, no official statements followed, but, according to a source with access to diplomatic information, it was about "exposing the topic of gas pipelines."

Hersh specified that after the meeting between the leaders of the two countries, the CIA was instructed to prepare a cover, together with German intelligence, which would provide the American and German press with an alternative version of the state of emergency at Nord Stream. As the journalist noted, Biden made a stupid decision to sabotage and now he is forced to lie about it.

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