{"id":1675933,"date":"2022-10-06T11:38:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T15:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1675933"},"modified":"2022-10-06T11:39:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T15:39:16","slug":"swedish-investigators-find-evidence-of-serious-sabotage-at-nord-stream-pipelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swedish-investigators-find-evidence-of-serious-sabotage-at-nord-stream-pipelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Investigators Find Evidence of Serious Sabotage at Nord Stream Pipelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fswedish-investigators-find-evidence-of-serious-sabotage-at-nord-stream-pipelines%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1675933&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Swedish agency on Thursday found that leaks\u00a0from the two Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nord-stream\">Nord Stream<\/a> 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea were likely caused by \u201cserious sabotage\u201d and evidence from the site was taken.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish Security Service <a href=\"https:\/\/sakerhetspolisen.se\/ovriga-sidor\/nyheter\/nyheter\/2022-10-06-starkt-misstanke-om-grovt-sabotage-i-ostersjon.html\">confirmed<\/a> that\u00a0\u201cdetonations\u201d\u00a0were responsible for the extensive damage to the wholly Russian-owned pipelines last week. Seismologists in Denmark and Sweden have also said that the damage was not of natural origin, saying that blasts most likely were the cause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the crime scene investigation \u2026 seizures have been made,\u201d said the Security Service. \u201cAs part of the work,\u201d it added in a statement, \u201cthe seizures will now be reviewed and analyzed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe continued preliminary investigation must show whether someone can be served with suspicion and later prosecuted,\u201d Sweden\u2019s Security Service said in a statement, adding the blasts are a \u201cvery serious\u201d development.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the initial probe is completed, a blockade around the pipelines off Sweden will be lifted, Swedish officials also said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The governments of Denmark and Sweden previously said they suspected that several hundred pounds of explosives were involved in carrying out a deliberate act of sabotage. The leaks from Nord Stream 1 and 2 discharged huge amounts of methane into the air.<\/p>\n<p>Danish authorities said the two methane leaks they were monitoring in international waters stopped over the weekend. One of the leaks off Sweden also appeared to have ended.<\/p>\n<h2>Energy Standoff<\/h2>\n<p>Officials in the European Union have publicly suspected sabotage, namely as the incident comes in the midst of an energy standoff between the EU, Germany, and Moscow. But Russian authorities have said that such accusations are \u201cpredictably stupid,\u201d noting that the pipelines are Russian-owned infrastructure and that the natural gas inside them is also Russian in origin.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4774538\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/10\/04\/GettyImages-699270290x-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4774538\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/10\/04\/GettyImages-699270290x-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Jeffrey Sachs gives a discussion in Trondheim, Norway, on June 21, 2017. (Michael Campanella\/Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>And some have suggested that the United States or one of its allies was behind the sabotage attack, which Pentagon and White House officials have categorically denied.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, a top economist with Columbia University, Jeffrey Sachs, publicly speculated that the United States would gain the most from the attack because it would then be able to sell its natural gas to Europe by cutting out Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Sachs also pointed to public statements made by President Joe Biden about the pipeline and last week\u2019s comment from Secretary of State Antony Blinken that it\u2019s now a \u201ctremendous opportunity\u201d for the EU to reduce dependency on Russian gas.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Thursday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova\">wrote<\/a> that EU countries were betrayed by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The spokeswoman noted that Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak recently said Russia was ready to supply gas through an undamaged branch of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill anyone now dare claim after that our country is behind this act of sabotage? I agree it\u2019s hard to face the truth. But someday the EU countries will have to face up to the fact they were betrayed by their allies,\u201d Zakharova wrote.<\/p>\n<h2>US Not Involved in \u2018Sabotage\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>When questioned during a Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/top-biden-admin-official-provides-update-on-sabotage-attack-against-nord-stream-pipelines_4776604.html\">interview<\/a> on Tuesday evening, White House and Pentagon spokesman John Kirby flatly denied Washington had anything to do with the incident. Those allegations, he asserted, are Russian propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s just Russian propaganda and disinformation,\u201d Kirby said. \u201cNow, we know it was an act of sabotage, but there\u2019s an investigation going on right now. I don\u2019t think we\u2019re going to get into credentialing that in terms of who was responsible. We\u2019re going to let the investigators take a look at that. But, clearly, this was an act of sabotage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No nation-state or group has claimed responsibility for the blasts. The United States also hasn\u2019t accused any country of carrying out a sabotage attack.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4640964\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/03\/kirby-in-dc-1200x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-4640964\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/kirby-in-dc-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4640964\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/kirby-in-dc-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> White House spokesman John Kirby speaks to reporters in Washington on Aug. 2, 2022. (Jim Watson\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAgain, I can\u2019t speak to specific accountability for this act of sabotage,\u201d Kirby said. \u201cI can just assure you the United States had nothing to do with it, of course. That\u2019s just Russian propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But later in the interview, Kirby implied that Russia could be behind it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust look at what Russia has done in the past since the last seven months of this war and when it began and that is to weaponize energy,\u201d Kirby told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-jack-phillips\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2019\/06\/13\/Jack-Phillips.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Phillips\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Breaking News Reporter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter at The Epoch Times based in New York.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Swedish agency on Thursday found that leaks\u00a0from the two Russian Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea were likely caused by \u201cserious sabotage\u201d and evidence from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1675937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1675933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1675933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1675937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}