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50 meters of pipeline destroyed - video shows leak in Nord Stream 1

Underwater footage has revealed the full extent of the damage to the Nord Stream 1 pipeline for the first time.

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50 meters of pipeline destroyed - video shows leak in Nord Stream 1

Underwater footage has revealed the full extent of the damage to the Nord Stream 1 pipeline for the first time. Videos released by Swedish newspaper Expressen on Tuesday showed at least 50 meters of the gas pipeline being destroyed or buried under the seabed. The recordings filmed at a depth of 80 meters on Monday showed, among other things, large cracks and bent metal.

Trond Larsen, drone pilot for Norwegian company Blueye Robotics, told Expressen that only "extreme force can bend such thick metal in this way". There was also "a very large impact on the seabed" around the pipeline, added Larsen, who steered the underwater drone for the recordings.

Danish police, meanwhile, said their investigations into the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Danish economic zone had confirmed the destruction was "caused by powerful explosions". The police announced that they would form a joint investigation team with the Danish secret service PET.

However, it is still too early to say whether international cooperation with Sweden and Germany is possible in the investigation.

At the end of September, four leaks were discovered off the Danish island of Bornholm on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, which run from Russia to Germany. According to an official Danish-Swedish report, they were caused by violent explosions. The pipelines were not operating at the time of the explosions but contained gas.

According to the federal government, there will be no joint investigative team to investigate the explosions on the Baltic Sea pipelines. Even without such a "Joint Investigation Team", the results of the investigations would be shared with partners, said a spokeswoman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior.

When asked why the investigative team planned jointly with Sweden and Denmark did not come about, she said that she "could not say at this point". The "Spiegel" had reported that Sweden had rejected this, justifying that the security classification of its investigation results was too high to share them with other countries.

The EU and NATO assume sabotage. The Kremlin had dismissed speculation about Russian participation as "stupid and absurd".

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