The HMX explosive could have been used to blow up the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines. ‘incident, writing Spiegel magazine, citing sources.
According to the publication, the metadata of the email that was sent to book the Andromeda yacht leads to Ukraine. According to preliminary data, it was this ship that was used to transport explosives by the attackers.
The remains of an explosive that could be used underwater were found on the yacht, writes Spiegel. Presumably, this substance is HMX, used both in the West and in the countries of the former Eastern bloc.
As the magazine notes, HMX is a lighter substance than other explosives. Thus, the assumption often made that the intruders could only deliver explosives to the site of the explosions on a larger vessel is no longer valid.
The version of involvement in the sabotage of the Russian side is considered “extremely unlikely”, the publication stressed.
According to Spiegel, “several intelligence services” agree on the involvement of the Ukrainian side in the sabotage. At the same time, the question of whether Ukrainian special services were involved in the explosions, or whether it was some sort of group that the Ukrainian authorities did not control, remains open.
The magazine claims that Germany has received “numerous reports from foreign intelligence agencies” indicating that the perpetrators of the bombings were “among the Ukrainians”.
Western media have repeatedly written about the possible involvement of the Ukrainian side in the sabotage of Nord Stream. The possible involvement of a pro-Ukrainian group in the incident was reported in March by the New York Times, and Die Zeit claimed that the ship which was allegedly used to blow up the pipelines had been rented by a company belonging to two Ukrainian citizens.
An investigation by media companies NDR, WDR and the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung showed that a Ukrainian serviceman might be involved in the incident.
Explosions on the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines occurred on September 26, 2022. At NATO, damage to the Nord Streams attached with sabotage, and the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia informed that the incident will be investigated as part of a criminal case under the international terrorism article. American journalist Seymour Hersh offered a version in February that the United States and Norway were involved in the explosions. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, commenting on Hersh’s findings, that Russia had spoken repeatedly about US and NATO involvement. Russian President Vladimir Putin in March expressed the view that sabotage was being carried out at the state level. The version about the alleged involvement of some pro-Ukrainian activists in the incident, Putin called it “nonsense”.
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