Category: Nord Stream

LIVE 2/13, at 10:30 AM ET: Unidentified Flying Objects Being Shot Down; US Accused of Destroying Nord Stream Pipeline

Unidentified flying objects were shot down by authorities in Canada and Alaska. The Chinese regime says it is also planning to shoot down a flying craft near its borders, and other odd incidents are being reported elsewhere. While details are thin on what the flying crafts were, this comes soon after the United States shot…


White House Responds to Report Claiming US Blew up Nord Stream Pipeline Last Year

White House officials on Wednesday dismissed a report from an investigative journalist alleging the United States was behind the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines last year. “This is utterly false and complete fiction,” said Adrienne Watson, a spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, in a statement to news outlets on Wednesday….


Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Firm Gets 6-Month Stay of Bankruptcy

BERLIN—A Swiss court has granted a six-month “stay of bankruptcy” to the operating company for the never-opened Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which was built to bring Russian gas to Germany but put on ice shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine in February. The company’s stay was extended from Jan. 10 through July 10 by a regional…


Norway to Boost Security of Vulnerable Undersea Cables After Nord Stream Sabotage

Norway has announced it’s going to bolster security around vulnerable undersea fiber optic cables that are critical to the country’s oil and gas production after the recent explosions of the Nord Stream pipelines were found to be an act of sabotage. Norway’s communications regulator Nkom said on Nov. 29 that it will allocate an additional $4.4…


Sweden Confirms Traces of Explosives at Nord Stream Pipeline Blast Site

Investigators probing the Nord Stream pipeline blasts have found traces of explosive material at the site, the Swedish Security Service said Friday, describing the incident as an act of “serious sabotage.” Authorities from Denmark and Sweden are investigating damage to the two Nord Stream pipelines that link Russia and Germany via the Baltic Sea after…


Moscow Pushes Claims of British Complicity in Black Sea, Baltic Attacks

Russia dropped a bombshell late last month when it claimed an attack on its Black Sea Fleet had been carried out with the aid of “British specialists.” Moscow went on to assert that the same unit of “specialists” had also played a leading role in a September attack on its Nord Stream gas pipeline. London,…


Russia Halts Black Sea Grain Deal after Attack, Points Finger at UK

Russia has announced its withdrawal from a UN-brokered agreement with Kyiv that had guaranteed the safe shipment of Ukrainian wheat through the Black Sea. The move came in response to an attack on Russian naval vessels docked in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, for which Moscow has blamed Ukrainian forces working in tandem with British…


Russia Ramps Up Ukraine Operations Following Annexations

Moscow infuriated the West last month by formally incorporating four regions of Ukraine–Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson–into the Russian Federation. In the weeks since, it has ramped up its “special military operation” in Ukraine by calling up fresh troops, imposing martial law, and targeting Ukrainian energy facilities. “The conflict has certainly escalated in recent weeks,”…


Investigators Reveal Cause of Nord Stream Pipeline Damage

Officials in Denmark said Tuesday that “powerful explosions” caused damage to the Nord Stream pipelines under the Baltic Sea. The Russian-constructed Nord Stream system had carried billions of cubic feet of natural gas from Russia to Germany before it was damaged late last month. No nation or group has claimed responsibility for the incident, and…


Sweden Opts Out of Joint Probe Into Nord Stream Leak, Refuses to Share Findings, Citing National Security

Sweden has opted out of a proposal to set up a formal joint investigation team with Denmark and Germany to investigate the recent leaks of the Russian-owned pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2. Mats Ljungqvist, the Swedish prosecutor involved in the country’s criminal investigation of the leaks in the Swedish economic zone, told Reuters that the…