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Baltic Pipe opens as Prigozhin admits Wagner role
Summary
A look back at two developments reported around 27 September 2022, one on gas supply in northern Europe and one concerning a Russian private military company.
What did the news from 26 and 27 September 2022 bring beyond the war's front lines? Two items stood out: a new gas link between Norway, Denmark and Poland, and an admission by a Russian oligarch.
On 27 September 2022, leaders from Poland, Norway and Denmark held a ceremony to open the Baltic Pipe. The natural gas pipeline was built to carry gas from the Norwegian shelf via Denmark to Poland.
A day earlier, on 26 September 2022, Yevgeny Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch 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 has been accused of war crimes in places where it was deployed. Prigozhin had previously denied any involvement with the organisation.
The two reports were unconnected in their details, but both were part of the news picture in Europe at the end of September 2022.
