the pipeline operator says the damage is unprecedented. european commission president ursula founder line says she also thinks that sabotage is to blame and says any attacks on europe's energy infrastructure. it will be met with the strongest possible response gas bubbles shining the baltic sea. this video from denmark's military shows thousands of cubic meters of fuel flowing from a pipeline, at least 70 meters below sea level. the on the sea pipelines gnawed stream 1 am to link russia and germany, the 3 red dots mark. the places where leaks were detected, even though the pipelines are not currently delivering russian gas to europe. they are still full of fuel off to the pressure in the pipeline dropped earlier this week. the operator said that suggested actual damage to the on the see pipes. some european leaders say that damage was no accident. the order sounds good. we have swedish intelligence, but we also have received information from denmark. and based on this, we concluded that this is probably a deliberate act. it is probably a case, a sabotage. they also told anthro ago met sab

you commission president ursula founder line, explain the rationale behind the additional measures. we isolate and it rush us economy even more. so we propose sweeping new important bands on russian products. this will keep russian products out of the european market and deprive russia of an additional $7000000000.00 euros in revenues were also proposing to extend the list of products that cannot be exported to russia anymore. well, earlier we asked to dw correspondent terry schultz for her take on european commission president earth the founder line statement. the european commission and her cell of underlying herself have been threatening for some time to bring forth this 8th package of sanctions against russia. and now this combination of the sham referenda, putin's mobilization of, of more people to fight in ukraine. his, his new nuclear or his repeated nuclear saber rattling, has all really gotten on the nerves. have the european commission so are still of underlying says she wants to make the kremlin pay for what she calls, bringing escalation against ukraine to a new you look

the european commission president ursula founder line says the major leaks in the north stream gas pipelines are the result of sabotage funder lie.

who organized annexation votes in occupied areas of ukraine. european commission president ursula founder line, said russia must pay a price for escalating the crisis. grimly miss sounds good. european leaders say ruptures in the north stream. pipelines were caused by sabotaged scientists, recorded explosions in the baltic sea before detecting 3 single tiny is leaks large plumes of natural gas or, and i've churning the surrounding waters, though there's been no claim of responsibility. poland says the leaks mark an escalation in the war on ukraine. this is dw news from berlin. you'll find more news on our website, d, w dot com and a result that surprised exactly. no one of our foresters in russia controlled regions of ukraine announced a victory in their so called referendums. but they dissolved lugens, cat hassan and apple regions have now called on president putin, to formally annex the ukrainian territories into russia. the use response couldn't be clearer. no recognition of those results and more tougher sanctions. i'm fil gale in berlin and this is the day ah, we do not accept the sham re