Swedish police said it has launched a preliminary investigation into possible sabotage related to the Nord Stream 1 gas leak in the Baltic Sea.
“We have established a report and the crime classification is gross sabotage,” a national police spokesperson said, according to Reuters.
It comes as the US said it is ready to provide support to European partners investigating the leak.
SVT can reveal that measuring stations in both Sweden and Denmark registered strong underwater explosions in the same area as the gas leaks on Monday. ‘There is no doubt that these are explosions,’ says Björn Lund, lecturer in seismology at the Swedish National Seismic Network, SNSN.
The first explosion was recorded at 2.03am on the night of Monday and the second at 7.04pm on Monday evening.
The warnings about the gas leaks came from the maritime administration at 1.52pm and 8.41pm on Monday, respectively, after ships detected bubbles on the surface.
SVT has obtained the coordinates of the measured explosions and they are in the same area where the gas leaks were registered.
Now Nord Steam 1 Lost Pressure in a Catastrophic Event – Update!
On Monday, Russia’s Norstream 2 Pipeline from Russia to Germany lost pressure from 300 to 7 bars due to a catastrophic event. The cause is unknown.
Now, Disclose TV reveals that following the pressure drop in Nord Stream 2, the operator reports that a pressure drop has also been recorded in both lines of Nord Stream 1. He decried the “unprecedented damage.”
“The damage that occurred in one day simultaneously at three lines of offshore pipelines of the Nord Stream system are unprecedented,” the company, Nord Stream AG, said in a statement to Russian state news agencies.
European officials said that the damage may have been sabotage. “It is hard to imagine that it is accidental,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said in Poland, according to the Danish newspaper Politiken. “We cannot rule out sabotage, but it is too early to conclude.”
According to Denmark, the leaking natural-gas is erupting like geysers.
Video of the geysers:
German officials are suggesting the pressure drops may have been a targeted attack. Can you think of potential culprits? Who? Let us know. We wonder about the CIA or Ukraine or the German State? The US Navy is in the area, but there is no evidence yet of sabotage. According to the Teller Report, an investigation is considering the possibility that the German State sabotaged the lines.
Ukraine’s Zelensky believes it was sabotaged by Russia but presented no evidence.
‘Coincidentally,’ at the same time, Germans have been protesting by the thousands, demanding Nord Stream be restarted. This seems to put an end to that request.
“There are two leaks on Nord Stream 1 – one in Swedish economic zone and one in Danish economic zone. They are very near each other,” a Swedish Maritime Administration (SMA) spokesperson told Reuters.
There was an explosion.
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