- There needs to be an investigation.

Of course with Russian participation, he told Russian media, reports AFP.

The statement comes after Sweden blocked the area around the pipelines pending an investigation.

"Right to intervene"

The coast guard has the right to intervene if someone enters the cordoned off area where the investigation into suspected sabotage on Nord Stream's lines is ongoing.

- In the cordoned off area, according to the prosecutor's decision, we can act as if it were Swedish territory, says Mattias Lindholm, press spokesperson at the Coast Guard.

- We do not say how we would intervene, but we can act.

The important thing is that we get to work undisturbed.

The Coast Guard flies during the day over the area where the leak is ongoing and continues its surveillance.

On Wednesday morning, the situation at the smaller leak is unchanged and it still has an area of ​​20 meters in diameter, while the larger one is gone.

- It is the same relationship with the leaks.

We will receive reports from our flight observations that we will make during the day.

We will fly at least until we have no ongoing leakage.

TT: Why has one leak disappeared but not the other?

- There are level differences among the pipes, among other things.

But different factors can have an effect, says Mattias Lindholm.

Nord Stream: No access

According to international rules, a new application to the Swedish government may be required from Nord Stream to make a major repair and replace pipes on the damaged lines that are in the Swedish economic zone.

The Danish government is also expected to have to take a stand.

The company, in which Russian Gazprom is the majority owner, writes on its website that it currently does not have access to the leaks, because Sweden and Denmark have not granted the necessary permits.

The operator refers to the Swedish Public Prosecutor's Office's decision to block off the area and also writes that Denmark has let it be known that the processing time for its request may take more than 20 working days.

Permission is required

When the government said yes to Nord Stream 2 in 2018, there was no provision allowing anything other than technical maintenance and minor repairs, according to Sweden's radio Ekot.

After the suspected sabotage against the gas pipelines in the southern parts of the Baltic Sea, it may be that it will be the Swedish government that sits with the decisive decision whether the Nord Stream pipelines should be fixed or not.

- I think there is international law that needs to be interpreted, but we can certainly come back, says Magdalena Andersson to Ekot.