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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Gemma McSherry

Truss says Nord Stream gas pipeline damage ‘clearly sabotage’

Two women shake hands
Liz Truss with her Danish counterpart, Mette Frederiksen, in Downing Street on Saturday. Photograph: Maja Smiejkowska/Reuters

Liz Truss has said a series of explosions that severely damaged Russia’s undersea Nord Stream gas pipelines were an act of sabotage.

In a joint report delivered to the United Nations last week, the Danish and Swedish governments have claimed that the leaks in the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which can carry gas to Germany, were caused by blasts equivalent to the power of “several hundred kilograms of explosive”.

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