The Baltic Fleet of the russian Navy turned out to be the perpetrator of sabotage on putin’s Nord Stream pipelines

The German Internet portal t-online published materials that point directly to the perpetrator of the sabotage of putin’s Nord Stream pipelines – the Baltic Fleet of the russian Navy and the SS-750 vessel with a mini-submarine on board.

The information from the German source looks convincing both factually and technically. In contrast to the versions about the ‘Ukrainian trace’ in the ‘investigations’ by the American and European media a couple of weeks ago, as well as the ‘American-Norwegian trace’ by Seymour Hersh. It coincides with what Mykhailo Gonchar, president in the Centre for Global Studies “Strategy XXI” investigates.

“…to carry out the relevant preparatory work, a civilian, but properly equipped vessel with an onboard crane for lowering and lifting cargo, with a specially trained crew, as well as with at least a remotely controlled vehicle with a manipulator for underwater technical work should have been involved. Something from the category of multifunctional rescue vessels of the same type that served the construction of Nord Stream 2 (Bakhtemir, Spasatel Karev), or some large-sized vessel. And it is impossible to carry out a set of preparatory works in one descent to the bottom within just one hour, and in three places… either a dry-type mini-submarine with manipulators or at least a suitable remotely operated underwater vehicle was used to carry out the preparatory works.”

It all fits together, not only according to German data, but also confirmed by data from russian sources. The main vehicle – the SS-750 auxiliary vessel (Project 141C, built in the GDR), is officially part of the russian Navy, assigned to the Baltiysk Naval Base near Kaliningrad. The mini-submarine AS-26 (Project 1855, codename Priz) is also on board. 

It is also interesting that a recent publication by the russian media, dedicated to the problem of the shortage of auxiliary vessels for the Russian Navy, states that “in Russia, there are pickup vessels of Projects 419 and 141 for underwater cargo operations.” The specifics of the vessel are very clearly indicated – underwater cargo operations (see below a scan with a list of vessels of the auxiliary fleet, including the SS-750 (Project 141C)). 

The German portal notes that a week before the explosions, on September 19, large-scale maneuvers of the Baltic Fleet began, which “could have been used as a cover for a real mission.” It is noted that the maneuvers involved soldiers of the 313th Special Forces Detachment: “These are elite soldiers trained for underwater explosive and sabotage operations. In the following days, suspicious ships were found in the area of the crime scenes over the Nord Stream gas pipeline.” It was the involvement of this unit (but not exclusively) in the strange movements of ships in the Nord Stream 2 completion zone in 2021 that was pointed out in the report of the Center for Global Studies “Strategy XXI” in October 2021.

Moreover, the head of the diving station of the 313th Separate Special Forces Detachment for Combating Underwater Sabotage, Aleksandr Ivanov, call sign “Gromov,” was one of the commanders of a combined group of servicemen from the Main Directorate of Deep Sea Research of the Russian Defense Ministry, the 342nd Rescue Detachment of the Baltic Fleet, and the detachment in question.

Therefore, the appearance of certain names in Western publications is only a matter of time. By the way, another Nebenzya show is expected today at the meeting of the UN Security Council, where he will push the draft resolution on NS, prepared jointly with his Chinese comrades. Well, we should wait for new multi-billion-dollar lawsuits against Gazprom and others, since we are talking about the actions committed by state organizations of the Russian Federation, which are the relevant military units of the Russian Navy’s Baltic Fleet. 

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