{"id":1787357,"date":"2022-12-26T18:48:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T23:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1787357"},"modified":"2022-12-26T20:59:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T01:59:37","slug":"nord-stream-whodunit-gets-complicated-as-russia-takes-steps-to-repair-sabotaged-pipelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nord-stream-whodunit-gets-complicated-as-russia-takes-steps-to-repair-sabotaged-pipelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Nord Stream Whodunit gets complicated as Russia takes steps to repair sabotaged 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\">26<\/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%2Fnord-stream-whodunit-gets-complicated-as-russia-takes-steps-to-repair-sabotaged-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=1787357&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-->\n<p>Russia is about to pay for expensive repairs to two natural gas pipelines that run through the Baltic Sea. Experts from Western countries suspect Moscow may have ordered these to be destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow\u2019s latest moves complicate already uncertain theories about who could be responsible for bombing the Nord Stream pipelines in September and why. Swedish investigators have determined that the most likely culprit is a state actor, but they can&#8217;t say who. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/26\/world\/europe\/nordstream-pipeline-explosion-russia.html\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Four leakages were caused by three explosions on September 26 in Nord Stream 1. The bombings were carried out at two locations within the exclusive economic zones Sweden, Denmark and the Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Many Western leaders and experts blamed Russian aggression for the leaks after the explosions. Jennifer Granholm, U.S. Energy Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-63084613\">said<\/a> Russia on September 30 \u201cseems\u201d Experts believe that Moscow was the perpetrator. Experts hypothesized that Moscow was sending a threatening message against the West\u2019s underwater infrastructure, as well as cutting off a main artery for Europe\u2019s access to Russian gas fields ahead of winter.<\/p>\n<p>Russia repeatedly denies the allegations. The Russian accusation has not been supported by evidence. Some European officials have expressed regret over earlier condemnations of Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe governments that waited to comment before drawing conclusions played this right,\u201d One European official said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2022\/12\/21\/russia-nord-stream-explosions\/\">The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Post, either a state or a state-backed terror organization is most likely to be suspect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that this amount of explosives has to be a state-level actor,\u201d Pekka Haavisto was the Finnish Foreign Minister. \u201cIt\u2019s not just a single fisherman who decides to put the bomb there. It\u2019s very professional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finland is not served by the Nord Stream pipelines. The event is still a warning. \u201cThe lesson learned is that it shows how vulnerable our energy network, our undersea cables, internet \u2026 are for all kinds of terrorists,\u201d Haavisto said.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Stenling, Sweden\u2019s top counterintelligence official, declined to posit a culprit to the Times. He stated that the attack was a terrorist plot. \u201cvery interesting\u201d following Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the big context of the war in Ukraine that is ongoing, it\u2019s very interesting and very serious,\u201d He spoke to the Times, while emphasizing Russia&#8217;s growing threats in cybersecurity and espionage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is preparing to make expensive repairs to a pair of natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea that many Western experts suspected Moscow had ordered sabotaged to begin with. Moscow\u2019s latest moves complicate already uncertain theories about who could be responsible for bombing the Nord Stream pipelines in September and why. 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