Swedish broadcaster SVT reported that the Swedish National Seismic Network detected two underwater explosions near the Nord Stream pipeline system on Monday.
“One of the explosions had a magnitude of 2.3 and was registered at as many as 30 measuring stations in southern Sweden,” SVT said.
Bjorn Lund, a professor in seismology and director of the Swedish National Seismic Network, said these two seismic events were explosions.
Danish Defense Forces published the first images of the gas leaks from the Nord Stream pipeline system near the exclusive economic zone southeast of Bornholm Island, according to the Swedish daily newspaper Aftonbaldet.
The first images show a large surface area of gas bubbles in the Baltic Sea.
The Nordstream 2 natural gas pipeline is completed at the bottom of the Baltic Sea and is filled with gas.
Remember what President Biden said weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine:
“If Russia invades…then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.”
Another leak was reported by the Danish Defense Forces to be 1 kilometer in diameter on the surface water.
Russia also said that the leak in the Russian network was a cause for concern and sabotage was a possible cause, Kremlin spokesman Peskov told reporters. The Nordstream 1 operator said it was not possible to estimate a timeline for restoring the pipelines. The destruction of three strands of the pipelines of the Nordstream system in one day is unprecedented.
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