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		</div><p>Swedish investigators found traces of explosives at the Baltic Sea site where two natural pipelines were damaged in an act of “gross sabotage”, the prosecutor leading Sweden’s preliminary investigation said.</p>
<p>Mats Ljungqvist of the Swedish Prosecution Authority said investigators carefully documented the area where the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines ruptured in September.</p>
<p>The parallel undersea pipelines run from Russia to Germany.</p>
<p>“Analysis carried out shows traces of explosives on several of the foreign objects that were found” at the site, Mr Ljungqvist said in a statement on Friday.</p>
<p>The prosecution authority said the preliminary investigation was “very complex and comprehensive” and further scrutiny would show whether anyone could be charged “with suspicion of crime”.</p>
<p>Investigators in Sweden, Denmark and Germany are looking into what happened.</p>
<p>Danish officials confirmed in October there was extensive damage to the pipelines caused by “powerful explosions”.</p>
<p>The leaks occurred in international waters but within the exclusive economic zones of Denmark and Sweden.</p>
<p>Investigators have not given indications of who they think may be responsible but reported earlier that the blasts were likely to have involved several hundred pounds of explosives.</p>
<p>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday it is “very important to find those who are behind the explosion”.</p>
<p>Sweden’s findings of “a sabotage act or a terrorist act – you can call it whatever you like” confirm “the information that the Russian side has had”, Mr Peskov said. Moscow needs to wait for a full damage assessment to decide whether to repair the pipelines, he added.</p>
<p>Nord Stream 1 carried Russian gas to Germany until Moscow cut off supplies at the end of August.</p>
<p>Nord Stream 2 never entered service as Germany suspended its certification process shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine in February.</p>
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