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Today in Focus

Who blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines?

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Months after the covert sabotage mission that has been likened to a spy thriller, the net could be closing in on the perpetrators at the centre of the mystery. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:10.6

Today, an underwater crime and the unexpected place its trail might lead.

0:30.0

On the morning of September 26 last year, there was unusual seismic activity,

0:34.9

detected in a patch of the Baltic Sea near Denmark.

0:43.6

Soon after, Danish authorities issued a warning to passing ships.

0:48.3

Plumes of gas were appearing in different places, forming giant craters on the ocean's surface,

0:54.7

some stretching 700 metres across.

1:00.6

Their initial reports indicated that this made the result of an attack or some kind of sabotage,

1:07.1

but these are initial reports.

1:08.8

We haven't confirmed that yet.

1:10.6

But if it is confirmed, that's clearly not possible.

1:15.4

Submarines sent to investigate quickly discovered the source of the leak.

1:20.3

Sabotage of a network of pipelines that until recently were the biggest source of Russian natural gas

1:27.2

to Europe. They had been blown up and who had done it became a source of global speculation.

1:34.3

And last week, the first real suspects emerged.

1:39.7

This is an extraordinary story. It could have come out of a Hollywood movie.

1:43.7

Danas several books will be written about it in years to come.

1:48.4

You know, you're talking about a kind of daring Commando raid carried out by five men and one woman.

1:55.4

They hire a boat, a Baltic Sea, they dive down, they blow up these gas pipelines,

2:01.7

the Nord Stream pipelines running from Russia to Germany.

2:05.3

And you know what? Nobody knows who did it at the time.

2:08.8

It causes us extraordinary explosions and huge damage.

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