Who blew up Nord Stream? For his new book, WSJ correspondent Bojan Pancevski spent years reconstructing the plot: seven Ukrainians, a rented yacht, and about $250,000. -- Meduza

A new book from Wall Street Journal correspondent Bojan Pancevski revisits the Nord Stream blasts and the investigative trail that led German authorities to conclude in 2024 that a Ukrainian sabotage group destroyed the pipelines. The explosions occurred on September 26, 2022, when three of four pipelines for Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 were ruptured in the Baltic Sea near Denmark’s island of Bornholm. Pancevski spent years reconstructing the planning and execution, and in June 2026 published The Nord Stream Conspiracy: The Inside Story of the Explosions That Shook the World. In an interview, he describes two key goals: reducing revenue for Vladimir Putin’s war and weakening Russia’s ties to Europe, noting the operation cost about $250,000.