The location of the leak on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. File photoMOSCOW, Sep 28Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson convened a security policy council on Wednesday to discuss the Nord Stream incident, STV reports with reference to Foreign Minister Ann Linde. On Monday, Nord Stream 2 AG reported that one of the Nord Stream 2″ (after construction it was filled with technical gas) an emergency occurred in the waters of Denmark near the island of Bornholm, accompanied by a sharp drop in pressure. The reasons are unknown, an investigation is underway, the company specified. Then Nord Stream AG, the operator of Nord Stream, reported on the pressure drop on both lines. The reasons are also unknown.Explosions at Nord Stream: the gas war has entered a hot stage of great strategic importance … But such an operation is very difficult — to make two explosions that led to three gas leaks in the area … This is not an attack on Sweden, because it did not take place on Swedish territory,» Linde TV channel quotes. said she would not speculate about who was behind the sabotage of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea. In addition, she added that the Swedes were preparing for such a scenario in connection with their entry into NATO. As Linde noted, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken promised to support Sweden. «What Blinken promised, first of all, is support in seeing what happened, as well as in collecting (additional) information,» the foreign minister quotes the TV channel. The work of Nord Stream has been suspended since late August due to problems with turbine repairs Siemens caused by Western sanctions. However, the pipeline remained filled with gas.Blinken discussed the Nord Stream incidents with a Danish colleague . As Bloomberg reported, Germany and Denmark did not rule out that the leaks at Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 were due to sabotage. So, an unnamed representative of the German security services told the agency that «the evidence indicates that it was more of a forceful action than a technical problem.» The Swedish seismic center said that powerful underwater explosions were registered in the area of gas leaks from Nord Stream on Monday, a journalist from the Swedish TV channel SVT reported. The media reported that the Swedish police launched an investigation into a possible sabotage after the emergency at Nord Stream. Linde on Tuesday evening said that the incidents with gas leaks from the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipelines were due to «explosions.» The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, after the emergency at Nord Stream, threatened to respond to the «deliberate violation» of the European energy infrastructure, without specifying who could be behind the incident. At the same time, former Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski rejoiced at the damage to the Nord Stream gas pipeline, and also wrote on social networks «Thank you, USA», without specifying what he meant. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, in response to this, wondered if this post was an official statement about a terrorist attack. The White House had stated a little earlier that the United States would not «speculate» about the causes of leaks at Nord Stream and were ready to assist countries Europe.
Sikorsky commented on his words about the emergency at Nord Stream
