How NATO wants to better protect pipelines after the Nord Stream attack

Brussels On September 26, 2022, shortly after 2 a.m., Danish and Swedish measuring stations recorded the first anomaly: a seaquake near the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm, 2.3 was the deflection on the Richter scale. A second tremor struck 17 hours later, 70 kilometers from the epicenter of the first tremor. Ships were ordered to avoid the areas at least five nautical miles while military and security officials investigated the incidents.

The photos they took went around the world: where the tremors were registered, the sea was bubbling. As if it were cooking.

It soon became clear what had happened: the Nord Stream pipelines – laid to transport Russian gas across the Baltic Sea floor to Germany – had burst. Investigators quickly ruled out natural causes.