“Unprecedented” damage occurred simultaneously , over the last 48 hours, on three offshore lines of the Nord Stream gas pipeline . This was declared by the company itself, which also communicated the impossibility of estimating when the operational capacity of the gas network system will be restored .
Yesterday two leaks had been identified on the Nord Stream 1 Russia-Europe pipeline in the Baltic Sea, hours later a similar incident occurred on its sister pipeline, the Nord Stream 2, as claimed by the Scandinavian authorities. In a note, the Danish minister of climate and energy, Dan Jorgensen, called for " higher levels of supervision in the electricity and gas sector " in the country.
One of the losses on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, in particular, occurred in the Danish economic zone and the other in the Swedish economic zone . Accidents are "subject to safety measures", with restrictions on navigation and overflight in the area.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said the losses should last " at least a week " and were caused by "deliberate acts".
The German federal government shares the same opinion, according to which the pipelines have been damaged by attacks . The Tagesspiegel newspaper writes, citing its sources and adding that "there was a drop in pressure in the two gas pipelines within a short distance of each other". According to the newspaper, Berlin does not consider the simultaneous interruption of the gas pipelines a " coincidence ".
The Kremlin does not rule out that "the destruction of the lines of the Nord Stream pipeline may be the result of sabotage ", is what presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, speaking of "truly alarming news" and adding that "the emergency on the lines of the Nord Stream it is a problem that concerns the energy security of the entire continent ". "Now we cannot rule out any hypothesis ," he said in response to a question from TASS that asked whether the Kremlin admitted the possibility of sabotage. "Obviously, there is some kind of destruction on the line, and before there are the results of the checks, we cannot rule out any cause in any way," he added.
(Unioneonline / vl)
