TThe crime scene is located at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, in the cold waters of the Danish island of Bornholm, off the southern coast of Sweden. It was here at the end of September that powerful explosions severed the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 underwater gas pipelines running from Russia to Germany, in an unprecedented attack on Europe’s energy infrastructure.
The three explosions that tore apart Nord Stream’s steel and concrete reinforced pipes appear to bear all the hallmarks of a series of daring operations carried out by Kremlin agents in Europe even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Mikhail Podolyak, an adviser to President Zelensky, the Ukrainian leader, said the day after the incident that the explosions were a terrorist attack that was
