 A plan to ramp up joint NATO patrols and naval military exercises will be outlined in an update of the EU's maritime strategy, which will be published on Friday, the newspaper said. Lithuanian politician Sinkavishis claimed that the bloc cannot exclude anything under the current circumstances. The Nord Stream pipelines connected Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea. Last September, powerful explosions ruptured three of the four pipes, making it impossible to deliver natural gas through them. Initially, there was widespread speculation in the Western media that Moscow had supposedly blown up its own infrastructure to put pressure on the EU amid the conflict in Ukraine. After months of investigations, no evidence has reportedly been found to back up that theory. Europe begins to fight against Russian spy ships. European Union officials believe that the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines warrants increased naval patrols to defend assets against Russia. According to the Financial Times, European investigators have reportedly found no evidence linking Moscow to the incident, which rendered multi-billion-dollar projects inoperable. After what happened with Nord Stream, we need increased monitoring and protecting of critical maritime infrastructure in ships from physical and cyber threats, Virginia's Sinkavishis, the EU's Environment and Oceans Commissioner, told the British newspaper.