COPENHAGEN — A Russian-flagged vessel chartered through Nord Stream AG, the operator of the leaking Nord Stream 1 fuel pipeline, is surveying the region for the first time, the Swedish military said Thursday.
Sweden and Denmark have concluded that 4 Nord Stream leaks were due to explosions last month, but did not specify who is responsible. World leaders have called it an act of sabotage.
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Swedish prosecutors and police concluded an investigation at the crime scene earlier this month, the Nordic army said on Wednesday it would conduct its own investigation.
“We represent the same area at the moment and talk to others,” a Swedish military spokesman told Reuters on Thursday.
“The consortium said some time ago that they were looking to investigate the scene of the explosions. . . To do underwater research, they don’t want our permission. “
Nord Stream AG, majority-owned through Russia’s Gazprom, did not respond to a request for comment.
Sweden has rejected calls from the Russian government to be part of its research or percentage of its findings before it is completed.
The owner of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline also said it plans to conduct its own investigation later, the military spokesman said.
Norway, now Europe’s largest supplier of herbal fuel, has stepped up pipeline inspections following alleged explosions in the Nord Stream formula last month, the country’s fuel infrastructure leader told Reuters.
The decline in fuel flows from Russia, which once covered 40% of Europe’s needs, has left the European Union working together on how to respond to the high costs that have deepened the cost-of-living crisis for families and businesses.
(Reporting through Stine Jacobsen in Copenhagen, reporting more through Vladimir Soldatkin in Moscow, editing through Terje Solsvik and Nick Macfie)
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