"The assessment by U.S. intelligence that a pro-Ukrainian group could have been responsible isn’t definitive, the senior official said. But it adds to the growing sense among investigators in the U.S. and Europe that neither Russian-government nor pro-Russian operatives were behind the sabotage.

By February, German officials had all but ruled out a Russian sabotage operation, although they maintained that the investigation was still considering all possibilities, according to two officials familiar with the probes. 

The U.S. doesn’t think Russia sabotaged the pipeline, a U.S. official said this week, while cautioning that the investigations are continuing. "

https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-nord-stream-probe-german-investigators-search-boat-that-may-have-carried-explosives-379505f9

3 hours ago, Bkk Brian said:

The name of the yacht/sailing boat was "Andromeda"

 

Latest info all here updated a few hours ago, source links are all in the article which is worthwhile reading:

 

The Nord Stream Andromeda Story: What We Know and What We Don’t

This could then be further narrowed down to the specific vessel the “Andromeda” through the help of several sources with knowledge of the investigation. This has now been publicly confirmed by the SPIEGEL. The Andromeda can be seen in this 2017 video from Yacht TV.

https://oalexanderdk.substack.com/p/the-nord-stream-andromeda-story-what

 

that article starts with:

"an anonymous US official suggested that the operation to sabotage the Nord Stream pipelines may have been conducted by a pro-Ukrainian group. Unfortunately this article contained very little verifiable new information with no concrete details that could in anyway be investigated further.
“U.S. officials declined to disclose the nature of the intelligence, how it was obtained or any details of the strength of the evidence it contains.”

 

"Suggestion", "may have been", unknown and unnamed "pro-ukrainian group", "any details of the strength of the evidence" just undermines the whole story. It's obvious it's fabricated.

 

Serious undercover actions, as that example of an international terrorism, which mounts to an act of war against germany and russia, would have a decoy or many decoys, to divert attention from the perpetrators. That is one of them.

That answers the last sentence of this article, why russia dismissed this story offhand. They believe that it was the CIA.

That story has more questions, than answers. The "discredited" american journalist called the white house "idiots" and story as "cxxp" in an interview a day following NYT "revelations" That's what it is.

1 hour ago, internationalism said:

that article starts with:

"an anonymous US official suggested that the operation to sabotage the Nord Stream pipelines may have been conducted by a pro-Ukrainian group. Unfortunately this article contained very little verifiable new information with no concrete details that could in anyway be investigated further.
“U.S. officials declined to disclose the nature of the intelligence, how it was obtained or any details of the strength of the evidence it contains.”

 

"Suggestion", "may have been", unknown and unnamed "pro-ukrainian group", "any details of the strength of the evidence" just undermines the whole story. It's obvious it's fabricated.

 

Serious undercover actions, as that example of an international terrorism, which mounts to an act of war against germany and russia, would have a decoy or many decoys, to divert attention from the perpetrators. That is one of them.

That answers the last sentence of this article, why russia dismissed this story offhand. They believe that it was the CIA.

That story has more questions, than answers. The "discredited" american journalist called the white house "idiots" and story as "cxxp" in an interview a day following NYT "revelations" That's what it is.

What point are you making? The article is a timeline of events so far up till 10 hours ago and starts with the first report that the New York Times broke and ends with the report from Germany on the naming of the yacht.

 

"All in all, this investigation into the Andromeda adds several interesting details to the story, but also leaves a lot more mystery out there."

1 hour ago, internationalism said:

"The assessment by U.S. intelligence that a pro-Ukrainian group could have been responsible isn’t definitive, the senior official said. But it adds to the growing sense among investigators in the U.S. and Europe that neither Russian-government nor pro-Russian operatives were behind the sabotage.

By February, German officials had all but ruled out a Russian sabotage operation, although they maintained that the investigation was still considering all possibilities, according to two officials familiar with the probes. 

The U.S. doesn’t think Russia sabotaged the pipeline, a U.S. official said this week, while cautioning that the investigations are continuing. "

https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-nord-stream-probe-german-investigators-search-boat-that-may-have-carried-explosives-379505f9

Your article is unfortunately paywalled. Here is a March 8 Reuters article quoting German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius' comments on the Ukraine theory.

 

"But I am warning against jumping to conclusions," Pistorius said on the sidelines of a summit in Stockholm.

 

Pistorius said earlier the likelihood was "equally high" that it could have been a "false flag operation staged to blame Ukraine".

 

Who would commit a false flag operation to blame Ukraine?

 

Conspiracy journalist source removed, continue and face a warning