US President Joe Biden has described the leaks in the Nord Stream 1 and 2 natural gas pipelines as a result of sabotage and announced investigations into the damaged pipelines. Russian President Vladimir Putin had previously blamed the West for this. Biden called Friday not to listen to Putin: “We know that what he says is not true.” According to the Russian company Gazprom, there is no timetable yet for repairing the leaks.
When the time comes, “we’ll send divers down to find out what happened,” Biden said in Washington on Friday. “It was an act of deliberate sabotage,” he said. He accused Russia of now spreading “false information and lies” about the damage.
Putin blames the West
“They (the Anglo-Saxons) have resorted to sabotage. Strange but true. By organizing explosions on the international gas pipeline Nord Stream (…), they have effectively started destroying the common European energy infrastructure,” Putin said Friday during the ceremony to annex several Ukrainian territories. The term “Anglo-Saxons” in Russian can mean the Americans, the British, or both nations together.
800 million m³ of gas escaped
According to estimates from Sweden and Denmark, at least two explosions with the force of an explosive charge likely weighing several hundred kilograms caused the gas pipelines to leak in the Baltic Sea. A spokesman for the Russian energy company Gazprom told TASS news agency that about 800 million cubic meters of gas had escaped. The volume of the leaked gas corresponds to quarterly deliveries for Denmark.
According to information, there is currently no foreseeable timetable for fixing the leaks. The group has been looking for “possible solutions to get the system working again,” spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov said Friday via video link for the UN Security Council in New York during a debate requested by Russia about the leaks.
However, the duration of this repair cannot be estimated at this time. Technically, the task was “very overwhelming”. Gazprom said there had never been such leaks.
Source: Krone
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