Thanks for including an archive link, interesting story. It’s crazy to think about how something of such consequence can happen, despite all these official government efforts to stop it, all with a team of just 6 people on a boat with some diving equipment and explosives.

In rushing to leave Germany, the sabotage crew neglected to wash the Andromeda, allowing German detectives to find traces of explosives, fingerprints and DNA samples of the crew.

Investigators later identified their mobile phone numbers and their Iridium satellite phone. That data allowed them to reconstruct the entire journey of the boat, which moored in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Poland. U.S. authorities sought a court order to obtain from Google the emails a Ukrainian businessman used to lease the boat, and handed them over to the Germans. That Ukrainian businessman had contacted a number of boat rental firms in Sweden as well as in Germany, starting from mid-May 2022.

News was reporting yesterday that there was an arrest warrant out for Volodymyr Z in Poland but that he just popped over the border back to Ukraine.

I’m curious about what we’d learn about it in the end. Was it an action to make EU speed up their cuts on russian gas? To put more weight onto existing pipes going through Ukraine? What other parties knew about that?

This article puts some additional accent on Germany’s opposition to that. It makes some sense in the context of them funding the NordStream project whose pipes were cut (while being inactive), but even more so - if we learn how many russian fingers were in their cake. The codependency between this european industrial giant and Kremlin goes as far as putting ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schröeder on the board of russian resource-extracting firm, as a thank-you retirement gift. It’s good their police do their job, but you’d need to think twice if they do this for their own interests alone.

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