“He lay exactly in the space between the threads of the gas pipeline.

It was a point: 651 km, depth 40 m,” he said.

Kupriyanov added that the object was neutralized by the Swedish Armed Forces.

“NATO said that the underwater fuse was lost in the exercise.

These are NATO exercises - when a military explosive device is exactly under our gas pipeline, ”he said.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russian specialists were not allowed to investigate explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines.

On September 26, sabotage occurred on two Russian export gas pipelines to Europe, Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2.