When Heidi Moritz stands at her window and gazes over the gray expanse of the Baltic Sea stretching to the horizon, she cannot make out the giant swirling pool of methane bubbling from leaks in two sabotaged gas pipelines from Russia far offshore.
But she knows it is there.
"It is terrifying,” said Moritz, 74, a hotel owner in Lubmin, a tiny village on Germany’s northern coast, whose fate has been closely linked to that of the pipelines, both of which land here. "This has brought the war to our doorstep. Where will it all end?”