![]() ![]() The ICOS, which is analysing the air quality, has shown footage of a huge gas cloud hovering above the Baltic Sea and moving across Europe. The methane clouds are being monitored closely. It is hard to believe but it is a fact that they organised the blasts on the Nord Stream international gas pipelines.” Offering no evidence for his claim, the Russian president said in a speech to mark the annexation of four Ukrainian regions: “The sanctions were not enough for the Anglo-Saxons: they moved on to sabotage. On Friday, Vladimir Putin blamed the US and its allies for blowing up the pipelines, raising the temperature in the crisis. Moscow has repeatedly underlined its capability to disrupt Europe’s energy infrastructure. If this theory proves to be right, the sophisticated nature of the attack as well as the power of the blast would add weight to suspicions that the attacks were carried out by a state power, with fingers pointed at Russia. Instead, experts are suggesting that maintenance robots operating within the pipeline structure may have planted the bombs during repair works. However, the amount of explosives that would have been necessary to cause such large blasts make this theory increasingly unlikely. ![]() There has been speculation that mini submarines might have been used to deliver the explosives. According to initial reports, the explosions happened at depths of between 70 and 90 metres. It remains a mystery as to how the explosives reached the pipeline. A monitoring station on the Danish island of Bornholm measured severe tremors.Ī representative of the Swedish coastguard told AFP: “There are two leaks on Swedish territory and two on the Danish side.” The first signs of explosions were registered on Monday morning by a Danish earthquake station after suspicious activity in the waters of the Baltic Sea. German investigators have undertaken seismic readings to calculate the power of the blasts. Intelligence sources quoted in the news magazine Spiegel believe the pipelines were hit in four places by explosions using 500kg of TNT, the equivalent to the explosive power of a heavy aircraft bomb. The pipes, built to transport gas from Russia to Germany, and only one of which was ever activated but both of which were full of gas, are said to be unusable due to the damage caused by the ruptures. The EU, Nato and the governments of Poland, Sweden and Denmark have all said they believe the leaks were caused deliberately.ĭata analysis has revealed huge clouds of methane gas are hovering over the leaks, from natural gas that has been pouring into the Baltic Sea from both pipelines since Monday, the ICOS, a greenhouse gas observation system operating across Europe, reported. German authorities have also said they believe that highly explosive detonations were responsible for the sabotage attacks on the two pipelines.
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