Nord Stream

Russia has come up with a bizarre response to the revelation that several of its warships were active last September in an area of the Baltic Sea where Nord Stream’s underwater gas pipelines were blown up four days later. At a news conference on Sunday, foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova…

A joint investigation by journalists from Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland has uncovered more evidence of Russian naval activity in an area of the Baltic Sea where three of Nord Stream’s underwater gas pipelines were later blown up. The new details follow last week’s confirmation that a Danish patrol ship…

Denmark has confirmed that a Russian naval vessel equipped for underwater operations was in the Baltic Sea last September, close to an area where explosions ruptured Nord Stream gas pipelines four days later. The vessel in question is the SS-750 rescue ship which carries a 55-tonne mini-submarine on its deck…

During the past few weeks huge numbers of people have become convinced the United States was responsible for explosions that wrecked three of the Nord Steam pipelines in the Baltic Sea last September. Many of the believers can be found on social media, proclaiming it as established fact. Maybe it’s…

On September 26 last year explosions ruptured three of the four Nord Stream pipelines laid under the Baltic Sea to deliver natural gas from Russia to Germany. …

On September 26 last year seismologists detected two underwater explosions in the Baltic Sea. According to Norsar, a Norwegian monitoring organisation, the first occurred at 02.03 local time, about 25km southeast of Denmark’s Borholm island. The second happened 17 hours later, some 50km northeast of Bornholm. It soon became clear…

A new development in the Nord Stream sabotage affair has turned the spotlight on Russia. Nord Stream is a pipeline system laid under the Baltic Sea to deliver natural gas from Russia to Germany. On 26 September last year someone blew up three of the four pipes in an attack…

This page is a collection of updates about the attack in September 2022 on the Nord Stream pipelines laid under the Baltic Sea to send natural gas from Russia to Germany. For more context see my full-length articles about the attack: Attack on Nord Stream: the story so far (March…

When bombers attacked the Nord Stream pipeline system last September they hit it at four points. The pipes, laid to supply Germany with natural gas from Russia, run for more than 1,200km beneath the Baltic Sea — which should have given the bombers plenty of options when deciding where to…