![]() ![]() ![]() Like Denmark, the Swedish government said it does not consider this as an act of aggression against it, given that the events took place outside its territorial waters, in the exclusive economic zones. ![]() Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said the leaks were an act of sabotage which “probably marks the next step of escalation of the situation in Ukraine”.Īnd Sweden’s outgoing Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said “there have been detonations” although foreign minister Ann Linde said they would not “speculate on motives or actors”.Ĭopenhagen expects the leaks at the pipelines, which are full of gas but not operational, to last “at least a week” - until the methane escaping from the underwater pipes runs out. Photos taken by the Danish military showed large areas of bubbles on the surface of the water, emanating from the three leaks in Sweden and Denmark’s economic zones north of Poland, of 1,000 metres in diameter with a bubbling epicenter of 200 meters in diameter.ĭanish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen described them as “deliberate acts”, adding: “We are not talking about an accident”. ![]() Leaders named sabotage on Tuesday (27 September) as the most likely cause of blasts that reportedly cut off the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines in the Danish and Swedish economic zones in the Baltic Sea, but stopped short of speculating about the perpetrators of the unprecedented attack.ĮU chief Ursula Von der Leyen said the leaks were due to “sabotage”, threatening the “strongest possible response” to any deliberate disruption of European energy infrastructure. ![]()
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