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According to the SVT TV channel, the emergency on the “Nord Streams” 1 and 2 could lead to damage not only to the threads of gas pipelines, but also to the underwater high-voltage cable between Sweden and Poland.
As the TV channel notes, the Swepol Link electric highway in question is laid along the seabed between the Sterne peninsula near Karlshamn in Sweden and the settlement of Bruskovo-Wielke in Poland. This high-voltage cable allows Sweden to export electricity.
“The cable runs 500 meters from the site of one of the explosions on one of the Russian gas pipelines,” said the representative of the Swedish operator of power systems Svenska kraftnat Per Kvarnefalk..