Russian navy vessel was seen close to Nord Stream pipelines 4 days earlier than they had been blown

A Russian navy vessel specialised in submarine operations was photographed close to the sabotaged Nord Stream gasoline pipelines simply previous to mysterious blasts in September, Danish every day Data stated Friday.

The newspaper stated the submarine rescue ship SS-750 was photographed within the Baltic Sea 4 days earlier than the still-unexplained explosions on the pipelines that hyperlink Russia to Germany.

The SS-750 has its personal mini-submarine, referred to as the AS-26, which may attain depths of 262 toes (80 metres) and carry a great deal of as much as 50kg.

‘The Danish navy confirmed that 26 pictures of the Russian vessel had been taken from a Danish patrol boat within the zone situated east of Bornholm on September 22, 2022,’ Data stated.

The Danish navy has not responded to a request for remark.

The newspaper stated the submarine rescue ship SS-750 (file picture) was photographed within the Baltic Sea 4 days earlier than the still-unexplained explosions on the pipelines that hyperlink Russia to Germany

On this file picture taken on September 27, 2022 this handout image launched by the Danish Defence Command exhibits the gasoline leak on the Nord Stream 2 gasoline pipeline 

Seven months after the spectacular blasts on the Nord Stream 1 and a pair of pipelines, it has but to be established who was accountable regardless of prison investigations within the international locations bordering the broken a part of the pipelines – Germany, Sweden and Denmark.

The New York Occasions reported in March that US officers had seen new intelligence indicating {that a} ‘pro-Ukrainian group’ was accountable, with out the involvement of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

German prosecutors subsequently stated that, in January, investigators had searched a ship suspected of getting transported explosives used within the blasts.

The prosecutor main Sweden’s probe stated in March it was ‘nonetheless unclear’ who was behind the sabotage, calling it ‘a fancy case’.

‘Our major assumption is {that a} state is behind it,’ Mats Ljungqvist stated.

‘The individuals who did this have in all probability been conscious that they would depart clues behind and possibly took care in order that the proof wouldn’t level in a single course, however in a number of instructions,’ he added. 

A former Danish intelligence officer turned analyst, Jacob Kaarsbo, informed Data that the presence of the SS-750 within the zone ‘sheds mild on what was happening within the area within the previous days.’

The affirmation was of explicit curiosity ‘as a result of we all know it’s able to finishing up such an operation,’ he stated.

Earlier this month, it was claimed that Russia is utilizing ‘ghost’ spy ships which are disguised as fishing trawlers off the UK coast to map out wind farms and communication cables for sabotage assaults in case it goes to conflict with the West. 

The fleet of Russian ships, disguised as fishing trawlers and analysis vessels, are reportedly crusing via the North Sea to gather information on the place wind farms, gasoline pipelines in addition to energy and web cables are situated. 

The vessels carry underwater surveillance to map out how the infrastructure is related with the goal to plan sabotage assaults in opposition to the West, a documentary aired by public broadcasters in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland has claimed.

Russia is aiming to plan the sabotage assaults in case it goes to conflict with the West, with their aim being to paralyse the ability provide in Europe, intelligence sources warned.

‘Within the occasion of a battle with the West, they’re prepared and know the place to intervene in the event that they need to paralyse the Danish society,’ counterintelligence chief Anders Henriksen from the Danish Police Intelligence Service informed Denmark’s DR. 

‘It is a strategic capability for Russia, which is taken into account crucial and is managed instantly from Moscow,’ Nils Andreas Stensones, head of the Norwegian Intelligence Service, added.

Intercepted radio communications from the Russian navy reveal Russia is utilizing ‘ghost ships’ within the North Sea. These vessels have turned off their transmitters and are due to this fact untraceable in worldwide waters. 

Russia is utilizing ‘ghost’ spy ships which are disguised as fishing trawlers off the UK coast to map out wind farms and communication cables for sabotage assaults in case it goes to conflict with the West, a probe has claimed. Final November, Admiral Vladimirsky (pictured) sailed across the Kattegat sea between Denmark and Sweden with out sharing its location for a month

Video exhibits a person carrying a masks whereas holding a Russian navy semi-automatic rifle stepping ahead on the highest deck as a DR journalist approached the Admiral Vladimirsky in a rubber boat. A number of different males stepped ahead additionally

The Kremlin on Wednesday dismissed the media claims as a ‘mistake’ and ‘with out foundation’, reiterating its attraction for ‘a clear and neutral worldwide inquiry’ into the sabotage of the Nord Stream gasoline pipelines in September 2022.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson in the meantime deemed the documentary’s claims ‘severe’.

‘This simply goes to indicate that we have now a really dangerous state of affairs in our fast neighborhood,’ he informed reporters at a navy base in southern Sweden.

Broadcasters DR in Denmark, NRK in Norway, SVT in Sweden and Yle in Finland pointed to how the Russian naval vessel Admiral Vladimirsky is getting used to gather intelligence – slightly than conduct oceanic analysis as Russia says it does.