The crime scene lies at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, in the chilly waters off the Danish island of Bornholm, close to Sweden’s southern coastline. It was here, in late September, that powerful explosions ruptured the Nord Stream 1 and 2 underwater gas pipelines that ran from Russia to Germany in an unprecedented attack on European energy infrastructure.
The three blasts, which tore through Nord Stream’s steel and concrete reinforced pipes, appeared to bear all the hallmarks of a series of audacious operations carried out in Europe by the Kremlin’s agents even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Zelensky, the Ukrainian leader, alleged the day after the incident that
