The damage to the gas pipeline system on the bed of the Baltic Sea - all caused in one day - was 'unprecedented', Nord Stream AG has said
'No doubt these were explosions'
He said the first was recorded in the early hours of Monday southeast of Bornholm. The latter and stronger blast on Monday evening was northeast of the island and equivalent to 100kg of dynamite. SVT said it had obtained the coordinates of the measured explosions, and they were in the same area where the gas leaks were registered.
Simone Tagliapietra, an energy expert with the Bruegel think-tank in Brussels, said the leaks"can't be a coincidence" and speculated they could have been caused by Russian sabotage or anti-Russian sabotage.
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