The company had by the time of the explosions announced an “indefinite” shutdown of the Nord Stream 1 pipes, citing technical issues which the EU branded “fallacious pretences.” The new Nord Stream 2 pipes, meanwhile, had never been brought into the service. The Nord Stream pipes are part-owned by Russia’s Gazprom.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki also hinted at Russian involvement. He branded the incident “nothing more a terrorist attack planned by Russia and act of aggression towards the EU” linked to Moscow's determination to provoke “pre-winter panic” over gas supplies to Europe. Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, spelt out the hypothesis via his Twitter feed on September 27 - the day after the explosions were first detected. In the days immediately after the attack, the working assumption of many analysts in the West was that this was a brazen act of intimidation on the part of Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin. In the information vacuum since September, various theories have surfaced as to the culprit and their motive: Theory 1: Putin, the energy bully On Wednesday, the German Prosecutor’s Office confirmed it had searched a ship in January suspected of transporting explosives used in the sabotage, but was still investigating the seized objects, the identities of the perpetrators and their possible motives.
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Now two new media reports - one from the New York Times, the other a joint investigation by German public broadcasters ARD and SWR, plus newspaper Die Zeit - raised the possibility that a pro-Ukrainian group - though not necessarily state-backed - may have been responsible. One of the three investigations, led by Sweden’s Prosecution Authority, confirmed in November that residues of explosives and several “foreign objects” were found at the “crime scene” on the seabed, around 100 meters below the surface of the Baltic Sea, close to the Danish Island of Bornholm. As was widely assumed within hours of the blast, the explosions were an act of deliberate sabotage.
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