5 Most Mysterious Events of the Russia-Ukraine War

On September 26th, 2022, with international tensions already running high, a series of explosions resulted in critical gas leaks on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipelines, which run through the Baltic Sea. Subsequently, 400,000 tons of methane gas poured up through the sea and into the atmosphere. Photographs of the hazardous results show the sea’s surface bubbling violently. The importance of the gas transported by these pipelines from Russia to Germany is widely known and - owing to the ongoing geopolitical turbulence as well as the existing energy shortages in EU countries - many suspected sabotage. Both Nord Stream pipelines are majority owned by the Russian company Gazprom, which is in turn state-owned. Although it’s plausible that Russia would seek to cut off gas supplies to Europe, and there are numerous ways in which it would benefit from doing so, no evidence for this theory has yet been presented. What was clear, however, is that the explosions were a