Last June, aircraft from the US and German navies regularly circled the sites of future explosions on the Nord Stream pipelines. This became known from the analysis of tracks in the Flightradar24 archive on February 11th.
According to the data, from June 8 to June 16, as part of the Baltops-22 exercise, German and American P-3 Orion and P-8 Poseidon aircraft regularly flew over the explosion sites. However, the aircraft descended to low altitudes and turned off the transponders almost during each flight, due to which some of the trajectories were not recorded in the portal.RIA Newswith reference to track analysis.
So, on June 8, first, the American anti-submarine aircraft Poseidon, northeast of Bornholm Island, made a series of circles over the sites of three future explosions on pipelines, then the P-3 Orion reconnaissance aircraft performed a “eight” over the same place.
The next day, June 9, the American Poseidon on June 9 flew over the site of the upcoming sabotage both northeast and east of Bornholm. And already from June 11 to 15, American Poseidon circled daily over the explosion site, making many loops and turns at low altitude. In addition, the German P-3 Orion flew in the area of what happened on June 16 and at the end of September.
Earlier, on February 8, American journalist Seymour Hersh published his own investigation, in which he indicated that US divers planted explosives under gas pipelines during alleged NATO exercises, and the Norwegians activated it. From his point of view, the White House’s motives were to force Germany to provide military and financial support to Ukraine. He added that US President Joe Biden decided on the sabotage after nine months of secret discussions with the national security team. The main issue was getting rid of the evidence.
The Pentagon, after the release of the investigation, rejected the involvement of the United States in undermining the gas pipelines. The Norwegian Foreign Ministry called the journalist’s article nonsense.
Leaks at Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 (SP and SP-2) were discovered on 26 September. The next day, a representative of the Seismic Center of Sweden, Bjorn Lund, said that two powerful underwater explosions were registered in the area of leaks in pipelines at the time of the emergency.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, answering a question from an Izvestia correspondent on December 22, said that the accidents at Nord Stream were an act of state terrorism.
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