According to the EU’s foreign policy leader Josep Borrell, this week’s breaches from two underwater gas pipelines between Germany and Russia “are not a coincidence” and show they were “a purposeful act.”
He issued a statement warning that “any deliberate interruption of European energy infrastructure is totally unacceptable and will be confronted with a forceful and united reaction.”
“All available evidence shows that leaks from the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines are the product of a planned act,” Borrell said in calling for a probe into the breaches.
The Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines are important pieces of infrastructure that connect Europe and Russia. Both buildings stored gas even though they were not in use, and the leaks caused the gas to bubble to the surface in the economic zones of Sweden and Denmark.
There were “huge discharges of energy” soon prior to the leaks, according to Swedish seismologists, one of whom told AFP that “there isn’t much other but a bomb that might trigger it.”
