The explosions that hit the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea in September, built to transport Russian gas to Europe, are part of sabotage, announced Friday the prosecutor in charge of the preliminary investigation carried out in Sweden. “The analyzes that have been carried out show remnants of explosives on several of the foreign objects discovered,” prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist said in a statement.
At the end of September, four huge gas leaks were detected on the gas pipelines linking Russia to Germany. Preliminary underwater inspections had reinforced suspicions of sabotage, as the leaks had been preceded by explosions.
Since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the two pipelines, which connect Russia to Germany, have been at the heart of geopolitical tensions, stoked after Moscow’s decision to cut off gas supplies to Europe in retaliation presumed against Western sanctions.
Since then, Russia’s accusations against the West have flared up. On October 12, Russian President Vladimir Putin deemed it an act of “international terrorism” benefiting the United States, Poland and Ukraine, and Russian diplomacy called on the US President Joe Biden to reveal if his country was responsible for these explosions. At the beginning of November, it was the turn of the United Kingdom to be accused by the Kremlin: “Our intelligence services have evidence suggesting that the attack was directed and coordinated by British military specialists”, declared Dmitri Peskov, spokesman for the Russian presidency.
Who benefits from sabotage?
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