Explosions that damaged Nord Stream’s natural gas pipelines were the result of sabotage, investigators in Sweden have said, APA reports.
Remnants of explosives have been found at the scene, a prosecutor says.
Those findings near pipeline damage confirmed that sabotage had taken place, they said.
Swedish and Danish authorities are investigating four holes in the Nord Stream 1, and 2 pipelines, which link Russia and Germany via the Baltic Sea and have become a flashpoint in the Ukraine crisis.
Attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines have previously been blamed on the Kremlin, which in turn has blamed the West.
The security police earlier said underwater “detonations” in September caused extensive damage to the pipelines in international waters outside Sweden and Denmark.
The pipelines burst, sending large amounts of methane gas into the air.
On Friday, the Prosecutor’s Office said: “An analysis which has now been carried out shows traces of explosives on several of the items recovered.”
Both the Nord Stream I and 2 pipelines, which were built to transport Russian gas to Germany, have been damaged in the Baltic Sea.
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