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New leak discovered in Baltic pipelines

The Swedish Coast Guard confirmed this Thursday it had discovered a new, smaller gas leak from the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea, bringing the number of leaks from the two Russian gas pipelines to four.

“There are two breakouts on the Swedish side and two breakouts on the Danish side,” a Coast Guard official told AFP news agency.

“The distance is subjective, but they are close to each other”, said the official, referring to the two escapes on the Swedish side.

“This is a large spill of about 900 meters in diameter and a smaller one of about 200 meters,” Jenny Larsson, a spokeswoman for the Coast Guard, told the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper.

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