{"id":142105,"date":"2022-11-02T16:51:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T20:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=142105"},"modified":"2022-11-02T16:51:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T20:51:47","slug":"gross-sabotage-sweden-finds-evidence-of-nord-stream-pipeline-detonations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=142105","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Gross sabotage&#8217;: Sweden finds evidence of Nord Stream pipeline detonations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>by\u00a0Breanne Deppisch, Energy and Environment Reporter<br \/>\nWashington Examiner<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">S<\/span>wedish authorities said Thursday that their investigation of the\u00a0<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/putin-accuses-us-and-its-allies-of-sabotaging-nord-stream-pipelines\">Nord Stream 1 and 2<\/a>\u00a0natural gas pipelines to Russia has revealed evidence of detonations, bolstering existing suspicions that last week\u2019s ruptures were\u00a0<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/sudden-leaks-gas-pipelines-russia-europe-warning-sabotage\">sabotage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After completing the crime scene investigation, the Swedish Security Service can conclude that there have been\u00a0<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/sudden-leaks-gas-pipelines-russia-europe-warning-sabotage\">detonations<\/a>\u00a0at Nord Stream 1 and 2 in the Swedish economic zone,&#8221; the Swedish Security Service said in a statement, adding that the blasts had caused &#8220;extensive damage&#8221; to the lines.<\/p>\n<p>The evidence &#8220;has strengthened the suspicions of gross sabotage,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities also said they had retrieved some material from the site of the blasts, which they will begin analyzing for evidence to determine who is responsible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe continued preliminary investigation must show whether someone can be served with suspicion and later prosecuted,\u201d officials said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Russia said later it had not been asked to participate in the investigation. &#8220;As of now, there are no plans to ask the Russian side to join investigations,&#8221; Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>German, Danish, and Swedish authorities are all investigating the gas leaks.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union has declined to name anyone responsible for the blasts until it can investigate them further, though it has maintained that it believes the attacks were an act of sabotage.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has not assigned blame for the leaks. Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused &#8220;Anglo-Saxons&#8221; of sabotaging the pipelines, leading President Joe Biden to accuse him of disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders said last week that any deliberate act would be met with a \u201crobust and united response.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/sweden-evidence-detonations-nord-stream-pipelines-gross-sabotage\">https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/sweden-evidence-detonations-nord-stream-pipelines-gross-sabotage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}