At the time of the leaks, Jeffrey Kargel, a senior scientist at the Planetary Research Institute in Tucson, Arizona, told POLITICO that “the leak was really disturbing.” However, while the amount of gas lost “obviously is large… it is not the climate disaster one might think,” Kargel said.
Germany, Sweden and Denmark launched separate investigations into the incident. All three established it was due to a it was due to sabotage.
Several countries have been publicly blamed for the explosions, with varying degrees of evidence. Ukraine has said Russia was behind the bombing, and Poland has also hinted that Moscow was responsible, which the Kremlin has denied.
Earlier in March, German media reported` that German prosecutors have found “traces” of evidence indicating that Ukrainians may have been involved in the explosions that blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines. However, those reports stressed that there’s no proof that Ukrainian authorities ordered the attack or were involved in it.
An earlier report by The New York Times had said that “intelligence suggests that a pro-Ukrainian group” sabotaged the pipelines.