Traces of explosives found at Nord Stream pipelines, confirming 'gross sabotage,' Sweden says

[Mirai]

The court held that the fight that Ukraine is waging with Russian aggression and genocide fulfils all the conditions of just war. – In other words, Ukraine, if it is Ukraine and its special forces, including the prosecuted, which the court does not prejudge, organized an armed mission to destroy the enemy pipelines, these actions were not unlawful. On the contrary. They were justified, rational and fair – argued Judge Dariusz Łubowski.


He issued the decision in the case of Żurawlow, which his defender described as “one of the most important days in the history of the Polish justice system”. Łubowski is a judge with 30 years of experience specializing in cases concerning international criminal law and international cooperation. For nearly 15 years he was posted to the Ministry of Justice. Since 2018, he has been the head of the section of international proceedings for criminal law cases in international relations in the Regional Court in Warsaw.

Feel free to use Google translate:

Sędzia, który zwolnił Ukraińca z aresztu naraził się wcześniej Łukaszence

Warszawski sędzia Dariusz Łubowski, który w piątek nie zgodził się na wydanie ukraińskiego nurka do Niemiec był ścigany przez służby Aleksandra Łukaszenki za wy

www.rp.pl

Some info about the judge who is a seasoned veteran of international law, via the Poland Reddit.

Interesting that the man is no Russophobe:

A year earlier, Dariusz Łubowski refused to give the Swedish authorities the Russian Denis Lisov, who fled with three daughters to Poland. After the man's wife became ill with schizophrenia, Swedish social care took the girl's man and placed her in a Muslim foster family. After fleeing to Poland, Sweden issued a European Arrest Warrant for the Russian.

And of course Lukashenka is after him:

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He settled a lot of high-profile extradition cases. In 2022, he refused to release Belarus to Sciapan Pusciła, the founder of the opposition portal NEXTA. The blogger was accused m.in. of organizing a conspiracy to seize power, complicity in mass riots and inciting hatred. Judge Łubowski, who was ruling on the extradition case at the time, decided that the release of the Belarusian man was unacceptable.

“First of all, you cannot give someone to the judicial authorities if that justice system does not exist at all. You can't spend to a state that's actually not a state. “The country demands the release of a completely innocent citizen simply because it has different views than the psychopathic dictator, a dictator who is not recognized by any civilized state.”


Importantly, for this decision, Łubowski was prosecuted by the Belarusian prosecutor's office. Shortly after the Polish judge issued the ruling, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Belarus initiated criminal proceedings against him regarding allegedly inciting ethnic hatred and social feuds. Belarusian investigators accused Judge Łubowski of deliberately spreading unreliable in Minsk’s opinion – information and vilifying the Belarusian authorities. The case of the Polish judge went to the investigative committee of Belarus.

 

[hexagon]

I happen to know quite a few Germans as casual acquaintances - some SA Germans and others German citizens. I have asked them separately in casual conversation "Who blew up Nord Stream 2?", and the reply has uniformly been "the USA, although I can't say that" (although, some didn't care whether they said it or not).

The Nord Stream Mystery

Who really destroyed the Nord Stream gas pipelines?

swprs.org

The first Nord Stream 2 explosion (morning) occurred about 25 kilometers southeast of Danish island Bornholm, while the two Nord Stream 1 explosions (evening) and the nearby second Nord Stream 2 explosion occurred about 60 kilometers northeast of Bornholm (see map above).The two Nord Stream 1 explosions occurred within 15 seconds of each other, but about 6 km apart: one blast occurred in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Denmark while the other occurred in the EEZ of Sweden. Thus, the explosion sites happened to be located right next to the boundary between the EEZs of Denmark and Sweden (see map above).

The first blast, in line A of Nord Stream 2, occurred at 02:03 in the morning. The second and third blasts, in lines A and B of Nord Stream 1, occurred 17 hours later, at 19:03 in the evening (and at a very different location, as will be discussed in the next section).

it was concluded that neither a massive bulk charge nor a shaped cutting charge was used, but instead a medium-sized bulk charge of about 40 kg of HMX (Octogen) that was placed beneath each pipeline (see figure below). Such a medium-sized bulk charge could have been installed by technical divers starting from the sea surface or, alternatively, by a submarine or mini-submarine.

This rented yacht nonsense is some of the most intelligence-insulting cr@p to be floated in recent memory.

https://archive.is/033kS

A Drunken Evening, a Rented Yacht. It involved a small rented yacht with a six-member crew, including trained civilian divers. One was a woman, whose presence helped create the illusion they were a group of friends on a pleasure cruise.

How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now

seymourhersh.substack.com

 

[Mirai]

Germany was warned in 2020 yet again about Nordstream:

Thankfully, given TurkStream’s limited capacity, Moscow has not been able to entirely diminish Ukrainian gas transit, but the completion of the much larger Nord Stream 2 would enable the Kremlin to make good on its threat. Such an eventuality would eliminate gas transit payments to Kyiv, and hence provide Moscow with an economic cudgel to use in its ongoing campaign of aggression toward Ukraine. The hard security implication of the move is more ominous: if Moscow is able to eliminate its own dependence on existing Ukrainian pipeline infrastructure – some of which sits physically adjacent to the current line-of-contact in Donbas – there would be one less strategic deterrent to an extension of Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine.

https://hwpi.harvard.edu/files/huri/files/ns2_report_21_may_2020.pdf?m=1595958323

https://www.pap.pl/node/892091

The resolution goes on to appeal for the above in the name of European values and solidarity with Ukraine and for care for stability and security in Europe as well as to increase EU resistance to Russian pressure.

The US State Department:

https://2017-2021.state.gov/fact-sheet-on-u-s-opposition-to-nord-stream-2/

Nord Stream 2 is a tool Russia is using to support its continued aggression against Ukraine. Russia seeks to prevent it from integrating more closely with Europe and the United States. Nord Stream 2 would enable Russia to bypass Ukraine for gas transit to Europe, which would deprive Ukraine of substantial transit revenues and increase its vulnerability to Russian aggression.

And here:

https://www.dw.com/en/nord-stream-2...ssian-aggression-in-eastern-europe/a-58618700

A joint statement by the foreign ministers of both countries, Dmytro Kuleba and Zbigniew Rau, said the decision to stop opposing the construction of Nord Stream 2 "has created [a] political, military and energy threat for Ukraine and central Europe, while increasing Russia's potential to destabilize the security situation in Europe."

 

[Mirai]

More interesting stuff about NS,

Niemcy blokują rozwój polskich portów. "Nord Stream jak szlaban" [ANALIZA]

**Polskie porty w Szczecinie i Świnoujściu choć mają dziś potencjał do rozwoju, mogą być mocno ograniczane. Północny tor podejściowy do portu w Świnoujściu krzyżuje się bowiem z gazociągiem Nord Stream, co uniemożliwia dostęp największych pływających po Bałtyku jednostek. Rozwiązaniem jest...

energetyka24.com

TLTR: Nord Stream 2 pipes are 17,5 meters under the water near port Świnoujście in West Pomerania which means only ships with 13,5 m draft can pass. Poland wanted them to be buried under the bottom but Germans ignored request of polish government. Original polish plans was to deepen Świnoujście and Szczecin to allow ships with 15 m draft (current are to build a completely new 17,5 m deep track in Świnoujście further from german territory and deepen Szczecin up to 12,5 m). Ports Świnoujście and Szczecin sued Nord Stream to German courts but they rejected appeals.

 

[Maurice Kitching]

Numerous sources claim it. You're just a Luthuli House propaganda repeater. Russia is our friend, hur hur. Hope they pay you well.

Go to bed Boomer.

Not really an argument. All countries have poor areas. Having business interests in Russia has given me a glimpse of both sides of life there. Most of Russia is well developed and the people flourishing. There are remote areas that have remained almost primitive, but I've always had the impression that it's largely by choice. This is not limited to Russia though. You see this in parts of Canada, Alaska (and some other parts of the US), Mongolia, Norway etc.

A rag can spin this any which way. Maybe you should go have a look for yourself.

Also, stop insulting the oom. It's not very lady-like.

 

[Mirai]

Not really an argument. All countries have poor areas. Having business interests in Russia has given me a glimpse of both sides of life there. Most of Russia is well developed and the people flourishing. There are remote areas that have remained almost primitive, but I've always had the impression that it's largely by choice. This is not limited to Russia though. You see this in parts of Canada, Alaska (and some other parts of the US), Mongolia, Norway etc.

Yes you do and yes you have. You must then be a strong ANC supporter because the Russian government is way, way more corrupt and delivers way less.

All countries have poor areas, but most civilised countries don't bribe foreigners, pump money into billionaire oligarchs, export the resource which is needed locally AT CHEAP prices for political clout, spend billions on foreign projects, invade other countries. Russia has the know how, the gas, the iron ore/steel etc and they don't support their own people. That was the point. Russia is probably the richest country in the world in terms of natural resources, it has a moderately sized population, it has plenty of educational institutions left over from Soviet days, yet... it's way below Europe, where countries often have few resources.

Largely by choice. LOL. Yes they have bad infrastructure by choice.

Love the vatniks around here.

Can you explain the Russian male life expectancy difference vs the European one? (68 vs 78?) Or will you claim you've only seen healthy people there on your Potemkin village tourist cruise? Another tourist at best and completely clueless.

A rag can spin this any which way. Maybe you should go have a look for yourself.

Also, stop insulting the oom. It's not very lady-like.

He's a granny? Sorry, she?

 

[Mirai]

https://censor.net/en/news/3580663/undermining-the-nord-stream-nawrocki-assessed-the-decision-of-the-polish-court

Conservative president of Poland, Nawrocki, agreed with the liberal PM on this issue as well, the judge was correct in deciding not to release the 'suspect' to the Germans.

The district prosecutor also decided not to file an appeal against the judge's verdict.

Warsaw Prosecutor Drops Appeal on Ukrainian Suspect Extradition in Nord Stream Case | Ukraine news - #Mezha

Warsaw District Prosecutor's Office decides not to appeal court refusal to extradite Ukrainian suspect linked to Nord Stream pipeline explosion.

mezha.net

We'll have to see if the Italians finally relent to Berlin's demands and hand their guy over or not.

 

[hexagon]

Friedrich Merz is testing Germany’s patience

With the economy stagnant and the far-right AfD gaining popularity, the chancellor is under pressure to deliver his promised reforms

www.ft.com

https://archive.is/5SJgM#selection-2767.0-2767.436

Friedrich Merz should have felt at ease in a room full of Germany’s leading tool and machinery makers — the pride of the country’s postwar export miracle and natural allies of his pro-business conservative party. Instead of praise, however, the German chancellor received a stinging reprimand. “The mood in our industry is not merely tense. It is furious and it is disappointed,” said Bertram Kawlath, chair of VDMA, the German engineering trade association, at its annual gathering in Berlin last month. “Entrepreneurs sit with their employees and have to cut jobs while politicians postpone the necessary reforms.”

Core German industries are shrinking, he laments. German steel output declined 12 per cent in the first half of this year compared with last year. And car manufacturing plants, which produced nearly 6mn vehicles in 2017, three-quarters of which were for export, now produce 4mn. A pick-up in defence production is unlikely to compensate fully, he says: “A tank is not a consumer product — it’s a deterrent. You build one and that’s it.”

 

[sefeddt]

Poland and Hungary war of words

https://twitter.com/x/status/1980927923650752904

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

German court says it was Ukraine ... ... more palatable than admitting the truth that it was Germany's most powerful ally who they rolled over for and are now covering up for

(S+) Nord Stream: Bundesgerichtshof schreibt Gaspipeline-Sprengungen der Ukraine zu

Das oberste deutsche Strafgericht hat entschieden: Ein mutmaßlicher Saboteur der Nord-Stream-Pipelines bleibt in Haft. In dem Beschluss nimmt das Gericht erstmals Stellung zu brisanten Details der Ermittlungen.

www.spiegel.de

 

[Wut]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2072386398519234805

 

[Blu82]

We may be getting movie.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2087553524448039051