They did it again – or, rather: they've tried it thrice ... (at least!)

von LePenseur

 

 

Vorgestern erinnerte ich, Dr. Klaus Peter Krause und seinen Artikel »They did it again« zitierend, daran, daß die jüngste durch die USA (bzw. auf deren Anordnung ausgeführte) Pipiline-Sprengung schon einen Vorgänger hatte. Nun lese ich im Moon of Alabama ein interessantes Kommentar-posting (#33):

Gazprom recalls how it discovered a NATO mine disposal system at the Nord Stream (EurAsia Daily, October 10, 2022 — in Russian) [The website is currently down. You will have to wait until it is brought back to verify correctness of my translation. However, the same information has been reported yesterday by other Russian media.]

In 2015, Gazprom discovered NATO’s underwater mine disposal system near one of the Nord Stream pipelines. It was destroyed then by the Swedish Navy. This has been explained to Rossiya 24 TV channel by Gazprom’s official representative Sergey Kupriyanov.

“Today it is necessary to recall the events on the Nord Stream gas pipeline that have already been recorded earlier. This case is well known. On November 6, 2015, during a scheduled visual inspection of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, NATO’s SeaFox underwater mine disposal system was discovered. It lay exactly in the space between the gas pipelines near one of them,” Sergey Kupriyanov said.

It was the 651st kilometer of the gas pipeline, the depth in that place is 40 meters, he explained.

“Then the explosive device was removed and neutralized by the Swedish Armed Forces. NATO said the underwater mine disposal system was lost during an exercise. The kind of exercise when a combat explosive device ends up right under our gas pipeline,” the representative of Gazprom concluded.

Russian Telegram channel Zvezdanews has published two close-up photos of that mine disposal system sitting right next to the Nord Stream pipeline: photos.

Aller unguten Dinge wären demnach also drei! Wobei der zweite Versuch nur durch die Aufmerk-samkeit der Kontrollore »leider« vereitelt wurde ...