BERLIN, November 9. /TASS/. A bomb expert from Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office stated on Monday that traces of explosives were found on the Andromeda yacht allegedly used by saboteurs to blow up the Nord Streams, and they are a match to the ones used to bomb the natural gas pipelines in 2022.
"It's the same explosive," Germany’s DPA quoted the expert as saying at a regular meeting of the Hamburg Higher Regional Court, which is reviewing the case surrounding the possible sabotage of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines.
The DPA agency reports that the specialist testified that traces of RDX and octogen were found on the Andromeda. The expert pointed out that these are extremely powerful substances typically used by the military.
Germany’s Die Zeit outlet previously reported that German investigators had identified all the saboteurs involved in the Nord Stream explosions on September 26, 2022. Arrest warrants were issued for six Ukrainian nationals. The seventh suspect, according to Die Zeit, died in hostilities in Ukraine in December 2024.
According to the German prosecution authorities, the sabotage group comprised a skipper, a coordinator, an explosives expert, and four divers, who arrived at the intended crime scene in the Baltic Sea aboard the yacht Andromeda from the German city of Rostock.
The main suspect in the explosions of the Nord Stream gas pipelines is 50-year-old Ukrainian national and former officer of Ukraine’s special task forces Vladimir Zhuravlev.
Zhuravlev was detained on August 19 in the Croatian city of Pula where, according to the local media, he took part in the shooting of a Hollywood film about the Nord Stream sabotage as a consultant.
In late September 2025, he was detained in the city of Pruszkow near Warsaw under a European arrest warrant. In October, 2025, he was released from custody by a Warsaw court.