Two explosions in the area where the Nord Stream gas pipeline is located have been reported on Tuesday by the Swedish National Seismic Network, which has been reported to have been the subject of a series of leaks whose origin is being investigated.
In statements to the public television SVT, Bjorn Lund, professor of the Swedish National Seismic Network, said that the measuring stations in southern Sweden recorded the explosions, the first in the early hours of Sunday to Monday and the second already on Monday afternoon.
On the day of the leaks in Nord Stream, European leaders such as the Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, or his Danish counterpart, Mette Frederiksen, have suggested that the pipeline may have been sabotaged by Russia itself.
As reported by the Polish state news agency, PAP, we can see that it is an act of sabotage, an act that probably marks the next stage in the escalation of the situation we are facing in Ukraine.
The Danish prime minister said that it was something unusual and that we, as part of the government and the authorities, take it very seriously.
Nord Stream operator Nord Stream AG said Tuesday that damage to three of the pipelines late Monday was unprecedented after a gas leak in one of the sections of Nord Stream 2 and a loss of pressure in Nord Stream 1, with no known causes at this time.
During Monday afternoon, Danish authorities detected a gas leak in one of the sections of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline on the Danish island of Bornholm. Hours later, the Nord Stream 1 subsea pipeline detected a drop in pressure of gas from Russia to Germany affecting both lines of the pipeline.