More likely KGB’s LoSharik sabotage sub. Putin blew Nordstream II to initiate a force majur to reset Russian gas contracts to higher market rates with the start of its UKR war.
When greater volume is supplied in one area another area must reduce volume to maintain prices. Contracts prevent that. Sabotage does not.
Interesting assessment and could be correct. The Russians were not running the line when it was cut and seem to come out very well with price increases of their subsequent gas contracts.
But their volume dropped from 46 percent of European imports to 16 percent of European imports. Their price increases appear to have been about 20 percent each year. That does not seem to be enough to make up for the lowered volume if these official figures are accurate.
The Swedes quickly put forensic dive teams at the cut locations and gathered quite substantial evidence on what happened. They seem to know exactly how it was done - and who did it, based on what they found.
Their silence on that last part speaks volumes to me. It strongly suggests that it was a British or US team that provided the sabotage equipment with a Ukraine front operation setup to take the credit or blame.
Sweden ended its probe on the grounds that it has no jurisdiction. It said the investigation’s primary purpose was to establish whether Sweden or its citizens somehow were involved. They officially concluded that no Swedish citizens or residents were involved in any way. Swedish officials also said they handed over to Germany “material that can be used as evidence in the German investigation.”
The current story is to blame a Ukraine group for the operation. A certain Volodymyr Zhuravlov, a diving instructor living in the Polish town of Pruszków has been charged along with five other persons. German authorities are the ones requesting arrests and extraditions.