Denmark invites Nord Stream operator to help salvage unidentified object

An unidentified object found close to the only remaining intact gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea, in this undated handout image. Danish Defence Command/Handout via REUTERS

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark on Thursday invited the Russian-controlled operator of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to help salvage an unidentified object found close to the only remaining intact gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea.

Three explosions last September on the Nord Stream pipelines built to deliver Russian gas to Germany have become another flashpoint in a standoff between the West and Russia set off by its invasion of Ukraine.