In the exchange of accusations about the sabotage of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline on September 26, 2022, genetic evidence appears that links Ukraine to the attack on the infrastructure that transports Russian gas to northern Europe. There is a new suspect in the German investigation, a 26-year-old Ukrainian soldier who is under the scrutiny of investigators because his son’s DNA is extremely similar to that found on the Andromeda yacht along with traces of explosives. To denounce him is the Republic. Andromeda is the vessel that left the island of Ruegen a few hours before the explosion that hit the gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea and was supposedly used to hit it.
But who is this new suspect? It was one of the yacht’s crew, in possession of a false Romanian passport, who had paid the price for the anchorage in Ruegen from which the divers had left and then placed the explosives in the pipes of the Nord Stream. The young soldier was identified after the BKA, the German federal criminal police, searched the apartment of the former companion who gave investigators her son’s DNA to make the comparison. To understand whether President Volodymyr Zelensky was aware of the operation.
This is not the only question. Could a small group of soldiers in a small boat carry out sabotage at a depth of 70 meters with 500 kilograms of explosives? The newspaper underlines the possibility that the suspect’s identification with the DNA was also a “false flag”, a manipulation to accuse Ukraine. In any case, the case is destined to exacerbate mutual accusations between Kiev and Moscow.
Source: IL Tempo
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