According to reports, a boat or underwater drone may have buried mines close to the pipelines months or even years ago. And these remote-controlled explosives are likely behind the Nord Stream leaks.
According to Sky News, which cited a UK defense source, the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines could have been destroyed by a remotely detonated underwater incendiary device.
According to the report, the Russian natural gas pipelines may have been damaged by mines delivered to the seabed on a long line, or explosives dumped from a boat or installed by an undersea drone, and the device could have been implanted "months or even years ago."
The explosives were improbable to have been set by a Russian submarine, according to the source, because the Baltic Sea is rather shallow, rendering such a covert operation easy to discern.
However, the source said that Russia "possibly" pulled out "a suspected act of sabotage," without offering any proof to back up this assertion.
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