The Russian supply vessels involved in the construction of Nord Stream 2 once again ignored the environmental restrictions during the completion of the B branch pipeline.
According to the Ukrainian intelligence service, on March 2 and and March 10 of this year, during the transportation of the next consignments of pipes from the port of Mukran, support vessel “Yuri Topchev” did not follow the previously established route around the protected areas in the FEZ of Germany and violated the wintering zone of birds.
“Relevant facts of the breach by vessels (Finval, Umka, Vladislav Strizhov, Yuriy Topchev) involved in the Nord Stream 2 project are not uncommon and show signs of systemic nature," Ukrainian intelligence reports.
Currently, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is being laid in the area where World War II lethal chemical agents were repeatedly detected. Despite the containers' having been buried in a localized area near Bornholm Island, over the past half-century, sea currents have scattered them over a large area, mostly south of the island. Now the Fortuna pipelayer every day risks damaging one of the containers with its anchors.