According to Die Zeit, German investigators believe the attack on the pipelines was carried out by a team of six people, using a yacht that had been hired by a company registered in Poland and was owned by two Ukrainian citizens.
The information has been shared between European intelligence agencies in an effort to establish more information about those who carried out the undersea bombings last September, an attack that left western governments perplexed.
Details about the intelligence remain sketchy, and it is unclear what confidence the US intelligence community places behind the theory, as well as who may have organised, funded and directed the attack on the gas pipelines running between Russia and Germany. But it is suggested that the Kyiv government did not direct the underwater strike.
Russia said it wanted to see an independent international inquiry in response to the report. Its deputy envoy to the United Nations said Moscow would call for a vote at the UN security council on whether to launch one.
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