Denmark has urged the Nord Stream consortium to participate in the recovery of a cylindrical object identified in the Baltic Sea, near the gas pipeline attacked last September. The object in question has been described as "suspicious" by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"The Energy Agency has offered the company that owns it, Nord Stream 2, to participate in the recovery operation," it said in a statement, more than six months after the sabotage of the gas pipelines.
The operator has not yet responded to the request and it is not yet known when the operation to recover the aforementioned object will take place.
According to the Danish Energy Agency, the object, which has not been identified but does not constitute a security risk either, will have to be reassembled with the help of members of the Danish Army.
The object measures about 40 cm high and 10 cm in diameter, according to the aforementioned body. "It is possible that it is a smoke buoy. More tests will be done."
The discovery of the object had been revealed by Putin himself two weeks ago, who pointed to sabotage. "Specialists believe that it may be an antenna to receive a signal to activate an explosive device, which could be placed on this part of the gas pipeline," said the Russian president.
Almost six months after the attack, its authorship remains a mystery despite investigations carried out in several countries: Germany, Sweden and Denmark.
In early March, Germany announced that it was investigating a ship suspected of having transported the explosives to the site. Also then, US intelligence pointed to a "Ukrainian group" as the perpetrator of the attack, the New York Times revealed.
According to sources consulted by EL MUNDO, it was directly the Ukrainian Armed Forces, taking advantage of the underwater combat training that the US has been subjecting them to for years.
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