Now the German investigative authorities were apparently able to achieve a decisive breakthrough. The ARD capital studio, the ARD political magazine “Contrasts”, the SWR and the “Zeit” want to have found out in a joint research. The investigators working on behalf of the Federal Public Prosecutor were able to largely reconstruct how and when the bomb attack took place. The traces would therefore also lead to Ukraine.
These findings add to those by US intelligence agencies, which were also released Tuesday via the New York Times – eXXpress reported. Unanswered questions abound.
According to the German media, the investigators have thus succeeded in identifying the boat that was allegedly used for the secret operation. It’s supposed to be a yacht. It was rented by a company based in Poland, owned by two Ukrainians, they say. The secret operation is said to have been carried out by a team of six: five men and one woman.
According to ARD, “Kontraste”, SWR and “Zeit”, the group consisted of “a captain, two divers, two diving assistants and a doctor who are said to have transported the explosives to the crime scenes and placed them there. The nationality of the perpetrators is apparently unclear. The assassins used professionally forged passports, which are said to have been used, among other things, to rent the boat.”
After the equipment for the operation was transported to the port in a van, the group is said to have set sail from Rostock on September 6, 2022. The boat was then located again, in Wieck (Darß) and later on the Danish island of Christiansø, northeast of Bornholm, before being returned to the owner. The investigators are said to have actually found traces of explosives in the boat.
“According to information from the ARD capital studio, Kontraste, the SWR and the ‘Zeit’, a Western secret service is said to have sent a tip to European partner services in the autumn, i.e. shortly after the destruction, according to which a Ukrainian commando was responsible for the destruction”, writes the “time”. Further intelligence information is said to have followed, which also indicated that a pro-Ukrainian group could be responsible.
It is completely unclear who the client or clients of the alleged team were. However, that would be the key question.
In Germany, the Federal Public Prosecutor is leading the explosive investigations, which he has commissioned both the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Federal Police to carry out. In addition, security authorities in Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands and the USA are said to have been involved in the investigation.