On Monday saboteurs focused Russia’s Nord Stream 1 and a pair of gasoline pipelines within the Baltic Sea. The assaults that shut down each pipelines from Russia are suspected sabotage in keeping with U.S. and European leaders and analysts.
Sweden reported detecting explosions early Monday morning and Monday night, with the morning one registering 1.9 on the Richter scale and the night explosion 2.3.
The Danish navy launched photographs and video of the gasoline leaks effervescent up within the Baltic Sea:
Billeder fra F-16 af gaslækage i Østersøen. https://t.co/OgCDfcvTjG pic.twitter.com/D5wsoXvuda
— Forsvaret (@forsvaretdk) September 27, 2022
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Se video og fotos af gaslækagerne på Nord Stream 1 og 2-gasledningerne i Østersøen på https://t.co/pj96CN7CDB: https://t.co/7bgt8TljaH #dkforsvar pic.twitter.com/I1zEPaBLYO
— Forsvaret (@forsvaretdk) September 27, 2022
The pipelines are protected by a layer of steel-reinforced concrete reported the Guardian:
“The metal pipe itself has a wall of 4.1 cm (1.6 inches) and is coated with steel-reinforced concrete as much as 11cm thick. Every part of the pipe weighs 11 tonnes, which fits to 24-25 tonnes after the concrete is utilized.”
How robust is a Nord Stream pipe? Fairly!
The metal pipe itself has a wall of 4.1 centimeters (1.6 inches), and it is coated with one other 6-11 cm of steel-reinforced concrete. Every part of the pipe weighs 11 tonnes, which fits to 24-25 tonnes after the concrete is utilized. pic.twitter.com/BFYnv36CaF
— Javier Blas (@JavierBlas) September 27, 2022
EU Parliamentarian Radek Sikorski, the Chairman of the EU-USA delegation, cheered the US following the explosions, suggesting Joe Biden had one thing to do with it.
And Joe Biden threatened to take the Russian Nord Stream pipelines offline earlier than Russia invaded Ukraine.
On Friday Russian chief Vladimir Putin blamed the US and UK for setting off the explosions, saying, “It’s apparent to everybody who advantages from it. Those that profit are those who’ve performed it.”
Russia Today reported:
The US and UK orchestrated the blasts on the Nord Stream 1 and a pair of gasoline pipelines within the Baltic Sea, which delivered Russian pure gasoline to Germany, as a result of they “clearly” profit from it, President Vladimir Putin insisted on Friday.
Putin accused Washington of making an attempt to stress the EU into banning Russian provides to “fully get its arms on the European market.”
“However the sanctions are now not sufficient for the Anglo-Saxons,” he mentioned, utilizing Russian shorthand for the US-UK transatlantic alliance. “They’ve turned to sabotage – it’s unbelievable, however it’s a truth – by organizing the explosions on the Nord Stream worldwide gasoline pipelines,” the president acknowledged.
“They de facto started the destruction of the widespread European vitality infrastructure. It’s apparent to everybody who advantages from it. Those that profit are those who’ve performed it.”