Denmark describes the odd item discovered close to the Nord Stream.

The Danish Energy Agency has salvaged a mysterious object spotted adjacent to the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, revealing it was merely a discarded smoke buoy. The object was detected by the pipeline earlier this month, with Russian President Vladimir Putin revealing it was found during a Gazprom survey about 30 kilometers away from where the pipeline was breached in sabotage attacks last September. Denmark is refusing Russia access to the Nord Stream sabotage probe, with Danish Foreign Minister Lars Rasmussen insisting the investigations being carried out by Denmark, Germany and Sweden was enough. Last month, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh released a bombshell investigation, alleging the sabotage was a joint American-Norwegian operation commissioned directly by US President Joe Biden. Washington and Oslo have strongly denied the allegations, while the president of Russia said last week that he "fully agreed" with Hersh's conclusions.