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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 16th. Hot Questions and Answers | Three Questions on the New Progress of the Investigation into the Nord Stream Explosion

Xinhua News Agency reporter

Nearly two years after the explosion of the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline, German and American media recently broke the news that the latest investigation showed that the sabotage was carried out by a Ukrainian gang. What are the key "findings" of the latest investigation? How do the parties express their views? How will the incident develop?

What are the key “discoveries”?

According to reports from German and American media, the latest investigation has two key "discoveries". First, the suspect was identified as coming from Ukraine. According to multiple German media reports, German prosecutors have sent an arrest warrant to Polish prosecutors, requesting the Polish side to arrest a Ukrainian diving instructor suspected of participating in sabotaging the Baltic Sea "Nord Stream" natural gas pipeline. German prosecutors have also targeted two other Ukrainian divers who may have placed explosives on the submarine natural gas pipeline, but Germany has not yet issued arrest warrants for the two.

The Wall Street Journal of the United States published an article on the same day saying that a group of Ukrainians rented yachts and deep-diving equipment to carry out sabotage on the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline in September 2022 in retaliation for Russia's special military operation against Ukraine in February of that year.

Second, the "findings" of the investigation exonerate the U.S. The Wall Street Journal, citing German police, Dutch intelligence and several anonymous sources, reported that Ukrainian President Zelensky initially approved the plan, but later terminated it at the request of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, but then-Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Zaluzhny continued to promote and implement the plan.