Sweden finds physical evidence of sabotage.
Sweden’s domestic security agency said Thursday that its preliminary investigation of leaks from two Russian gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea “has strengthened the suspicions of serious sabotage” as the cause and a prosecutor said evidence at the site has been seized.
Swedish officials said Wednesday that they have decided to close their investigation into the September 2022 explosions on the underwater Nord Stream gas pipelines which were built to carry Russian natural gas to Germany, saying they don’t have jurisdiction…
The probe’s primary purpose was “to establish whether Swedish citizens were involved” and whether Sweden somehow was used to carry out the detonations, thereby putting the Scandinavian country at risk, the authority said…
Kenneth Øhlenschlæger Buhl of the Royal Danish Defense College said the Swedish decision ”indicates there could have been some kind of a political involvement.”
“There might be a good reason for not going out with a conclusion,” Øhlenschlæger Buhl said. “Sweden stands in a sensitive position as it wants to join NATO and may not want to rock the boat further.”
DB2
I thought they found the boats used were chartered in Poland by unidentified people from Ukraine.
The insurers also stated that the policy does not cover any damage which happened “under the order of any government.”
DB2
There is a lot of business before congress. The last bit of business will be aid to Ukraine and Israel. It will pass. It will doom one career. Only temporarily.
The Swedes are on our team. It is not lost on anyone in NATO what we all have to do.