The incident happened suddenly, unexpectedly, and raises more questions than it answers.
On Monday, September 26, two explosions severely damaged the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, causing one leak in Swedish territorial waters and two leaks in Danish territorial waters.
A fourth leak was identified on Thursday in the Baltic Sea, on the Danish side.
Quickly, the track of sabotage was privileged and, with it, a question, for the moment insoluble: who was at work?
Suspicion immediately fell on Russia, which is one of the few countries, along with the United States, to be able to carry out such an operation.
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Moscow brushed aside these accusations, saying that it “
suffers serious economic damage as a result of these acts
”.
Russia is urgently calling for a meeting of the UN Security Council, scheduled for Friday.
On Thursday, the Kremlin also denounced a “
terrorist act
” involving a foreign “
state
”, after pointing to the United States, which…
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