According to US officials, new intelligence indicates that a pro-Ukrainian group was behind bombing pipelines Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 in the Baltic, writes the New York Times.

The officials cited by the newspaper agree that nothing seems to point to president Volodymyr Zelenskyy or his inner-circle members being involved in the operation.

Or that Ukrainian officials should have ordered to sabotage.

Details are sparse in the New York Times story but reports state that the new intelligence points in the direction of an anti-Kremlin group to have carried out the sabotage.

But the members of this group remain unknown and the article does not reveal who paid for the Baltic operation, nor does it say whether a group in this respect could be a nation or foreign organization.

The article fails to convince senior analyst at think tank Europa and former analyst with the Danish Armed Forces Intelligence Service Jacob Kaarsbo or military analyst at the Danish Centre for Maritime Operations Anders Puck Nielsen.

In an interview with Danish daily Berlingske, Kaarsbo deems it ”loose assumption circulated on a very thin premise,” while Puck Nielsen deems article informations as ”very vague and inaccurate.”

Ever since the two gas pipelines were blown up in the end of September, the air has been rife with accusations as to who was at fault.

In the west, many estimated that Russia must have blown up the pipelines set to keep natural gas flowing from Russia to Germany.

Russia denied the allegations, and Moscow has recently called for an international investigation to be carried out.

The explosions occurred off the coast of Danish island Bornholm and Southern Sweden. They were quickly linked to Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Ongoing joint investigation is currently underway in Denmark, Sweden and Germany. Most recently, the three countries informed that they hadn’t finished investigations and therefore couldn’t make any conclusions.

On Tuesday, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the US government will await the three countries’ report.

Kremlin says on Tuesday, that The New York Times’ story only strengthens Russian call for an international investigation, writes Reuters.

Russia is expected to present a resolution to a vote in the end of March in the UN Security Council where they will call on UN secretary general António Guterres to launch an investigation.