Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 subsea pipelines sustain damage in twin blasts deemed not accidental
The apparent attack on the Nord Stream pipelines opened a new front in the war, various European officials said, as Germany and other countries“It looks like we are entering a new phase of hybrid war,” Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics said in a tweet. By “hybrid,” he was referring to the aspects of the war beyond conventional warfare, such as cyberattacks, the embargoes and sanctions, and Russia’s determined effort to cut gas supplies to central and western Europe.
The newer Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which was endorsed by former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, was fully built but never went into operation. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz suspended its permitting process in February, just before Russia invaded Ukraine. The explosions were in fairly shallow international waters – less than 100 metres – just beyond the territorial waters claimed by Sweden and Denmark. The pipelines were leaking from three spots.
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