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Baltic Pipe opens and Prigozhin admits Wagner
Summary
Two announcements from the days around 28 September 2022 concerned European gas supply and a Russian private military company.
What did the days around 28 September 2022 reveal about Europe's gas routes and Russia's private armies? Two reports offer a partial answer.
On 27 September 2022, leaders from Poland, Norway and Denmark held a ceremony to open the Baltic Pipe. The natural gas pipeline is designed to carry gas from the Norwegian shelf via Denmark to Poland.
A day earlier, on 26 September 2022, Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, described as a close ally of Vladimir Putin, publicly admitted for the first time that he had founded the Wagner Group. The private military company is accused of war crimes in places where it has been deployed. Prigozhin had previously denied any involvement with the organisation.
The two items were unrelated in their details, but both were reported within the same few days: one marked the opening of a new gas link between Norway, Denmark and Poland, the other a change in a long-standing denial about Wagner's origins.
