It is not therefore an entirely trivial incident, whose consequences were tellingly being talked up by senior Russian figures on Tuesday.ĭmitry Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesperson, said: “This is an issue related to the energy security of the entire continent.” However, Nord Stream 2 has never opened and the original pipeline was shut indefinitely for repairs at the beginning of September. One of the explosions measured 2.3 on the Richter scale, which Danish experts described as in line with a powerful bomb from the second world war. They are designed to be tough: each section of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, the company’s literature says, has a steel case 27 to 41mm thick, in turn surrounded by a concrete coating of 60 to 110mm. None of those assets would, by this thinking, demand any kind of Nato or other western military response.Įuropean leaders blame sabotage as gas pours into Baltic from Nord Stream pipelines – video reportīut the fact remains that two undersea pipelines have been ruptured in a 24-hour period.
The Nord Stream 1 pipeline between Russia and Germany is 51% owned by Gazprom, the St Petersburg-headquartered energy giant, while Nord Stream 2 is owned by a Swiss subsidiary of the same company. This last part is guesswork and western officials were quick to stress on Tuesday that the explosions appeared to have affected Russian-owned assets. fishing waters and sending bombers toward. That would be an operation that would need to have been undertaken with some care, but not particularly specialised military resources. Boats Faced Russian Aggression Near Alaska Russia has escalated its provocative encounters in the North Pacific this year, harassing boats in U.S.
One British military source speculated that mines may have been discreetly laid from a disguised commercial vessel and detonated days or weeks later. Nor is Baltic the location where it would make sense to deploy deep-water Losharik submarines, which could be deployed by the Russians to cut the communications cables that run deep under the Atlantic, where the waters have an average depth more like 3,500 metres. But there is no mention of submarines from the countries investigating the incidents. The Typhoon class, Soviet designation Project 941 Akula ( Russian:, meaning 'shark', NATO reporting name Typhoon ), is a class of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines designed and built by the Soviet Union for the Soviet Navy. A Canadian P-3 plane - using sonar buoys - heard. A submarine targeting the pipelines should have been detected in the Baltic’s relatively shallow waters, where depths rarely exceed 100 metres. The search for a submersible vessel that went missing near the wreck of the Titanic has been relocated after noises were heard in the area. What is not immediately clear is how any attack would have been carried out.
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