The operator of the undersea gas pipelines linking Russia to Germany, Nord Stream AG, announced on Saturday the end of the leaks on Nord Stream 2, on the basis of insufficient pressure to escape from the gas pipeline.
A total of four large leaks releasing tens of thousands of tonnes of methane have hit the two pipelines off the Danish island of Bornholm since the start of last week.
They are located in international waters but two of them are in the Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), and the other two are in the Danish EEZ.
According to the Danish authorities, the leaks, in sharp decline, should stop around this weekend.
On the Swedish side, the main leak affected Nord Stream 1, while a smaller one concerned Nord Stream 2.
This is the one that is still active on Monday, the coast guards said in a statement.
During an overflight on Monday morning around 06:00 GMT, "the largest leak was no longer visible but the small one, on the other hand, had increased again", with a diameter of bubbling at sea "of about 30 meters".
Underwater explosions equivalent to "hundreds of kilos" of TNT are behind leaks discovered on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in international waters off the Danish island of Bornholm, and "all information available indicate that these explosions are the result of a deliberate act", indicated Sweden and Denmark in an official report submitted to the United Nations.
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Suspected of being the source of the leaks, Russia had counter-attacked on Wednesday, pointing the finger at the United States and obtaining a meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday.
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