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An interesting article from Taiwan on Nord Stream translated with the help of Google translate.

According to the German media “NDR” reported on August 3 this year, the United States quietly deployed 4,000 soldiers near Bornholm Island in Denmark, and the location of the explosion and leakage happened to be located on Bornholm Island.

On August 23, the U.S. military sold two robotic arms with a water depth of 150 meters to the British intelligence service; before the explosion, the frogmen of the British Surface Fleet worked for three days near Bornholm Island, which is the North Stream pipeline.

From September 2 to 13, the U.S. Navy MH-60S conducted a series of flights with the ADS-B signal turned on around the leak point of the Beixi (Nord Stream) pipeline, and its flight trajectory completely coincided with the leak point of the Beixi pipeline.

On September 27, two British frogmen were rewarded for performing a particularly difficult underwater mission in foreign waters; the two pipeline explosions were separated by fifteen hours, during which time the U.S. P8A reconnaissance aircraft repeatedly reconnaissance.

It can be seen from this information that under the cover of the deployment of the US military, the British underwater frogman special forces used the underwater manipulator provided by the United States to take directional blasting on the Beixi No. 2 pipeline. It is not difficult to place explosives under water for several tens of meters, but it is necessary to drill through the concrete wrapped by the pipeline and then place the explosives on it, and multiple layers of detonation are required to ensure that the pipeline is directly blown after the concrete is blown up, which requires professional soldiers of the special forces. Judging from an earthquake with an explosive yield of 2.3, such a large yield is enough to destroy the pipeline. At the same time, in order to ensure the safety of the blasters, a long-distance remote-controlled underwater manipulator must be used.

Although the Beixi Line 1 is under maintenance and the Beixi Line 2 has not been opened yet, the interior of the pipe body is already full of natural gas. Therefore, after the successful blasting, the natural gas gushed out like spring water. The bubbles rose to the surface of the Baltic Sea, forming a “bubble circle” more than a kilometer in diameter. And because it was an underwater explosion, the explosion did not cause a fire, and it was not noticed until a large influx of natural gas. From the time of the influx to the discovery, the British and American personnel have completed their tasks and retreated.

The British and American methods of blasting the Nord Stream pipeline are very tricky. The North Stream pipeline is 1,000 kilometers long, and most of the waters it passes through are very shallow. However, the British underwater frogmen specially chose to blast in the deep water area 2 kilometers away from the Danish territorial waters. This greatly increases the complexity and difficulty of Russian maintenance, and cannot be repaired in a short period of time. If it is not maintained for a long time, a large amount of salt water will flow in and corrode the pipeline, and the entire Nord Stream pipeline will never be used. The location of the selected point is accurate, and the whole is directly scrapped. This is obviously the blasting point carefully planned and selected by the British and the United States.

Source: https://cofacts.tw/article/3367w40cj09k5

The Swedish newspaper Expressen published photos of the destroyed section of the Nord Stream: https://tinyurl.com/2m46eqw6

https://www.rbc.ru/politics/18/10/2022/634e55969a79470c072bc39f?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop