Nord Stream: what we know about the leaks affecting the two gas pipelines

Baptiste Morin, edited by Gauthier Delomez 7:46 p.m., September 27, 2022

The track of sabotage seems the most probable.

Boils up to a kilometer in diameter have been spotted by the Danish army on the two Nord Stream gas pipelines, affected by strange leaks, which connect Russia to Germany.

Ukraine denounced a terrorist attack by Moscow, while Russia said it was "extremely concerned".

UPDATE - The surface area of ​​the largest Nord Stream gas leak shows a "disturbance" of well over 1 kilometer in diameter, according to the Danish armed forces.

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In reality, the Swedish seismic institute announces that it has recorded two underwater explosions, most likely due to detonations near the two gas pipelines and before the leaks detected in less than 24 hours, in the same perimeter of the Baltic Sea, to the south -east of the Danish island of Bornholm.

Images released by the Danish army

The images of bubbling caused by methane were recorded and broadcast by the Danish army.

The hypothesis of an act of sabotage carried out on a commanded mission at a depth of 40 meters is gaining momentum hour by hour.

If all eyes are on Moscow, for the energy specialist Thierry Bros, we must be careful: indeed, sabotaging these gas pipelines is not necessarily in Vladimir Putin's interest.

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"The result is that these pipes will no longer be used to bring Russian gas to Europe, and only a few days ago the Russian president asked Europe to open Nord Stream II", recalls the specialist at the microphone of Europe 1. The calendar intrigues even more: these leaks come as a new gas pipeline linking Norway and Poland is inaugurated.

This shows that Eastern Europe can also do without Russian gas.