A Ukrainian has been arrested in Italy in connection with the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline. Italian police have claimed that this man is suspected of involvement in the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, German prosecutors reported on Thursday.
The explosions took place at the same time as an attack on critical energy infrastructure and a stark example of the rising economic fallout of the Ukraine conflict.
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Germany’s Federal Prosecutor General has reportedly been investigating the explosions for more than two years, with limited information coming out about the progress of the investigation.
The man who was arrested is being referred to only as Sergey K. He was detained near Rimini on the basis of a European arrest warrant. German investigators believe that he led a unit that blew up sections of the pipelines in September 2022, according to a report by RT. A statement on the arrest was released by those investigating the sabotage.
“After being transferred from Italy, the accused will be brought before the investigating judge of the Federal Court of Justice,” according to the statement by the prosecutor’s office.
Many investigators have assumed that Ukraine and the United States, under Joe Biden’s administration, were responsible for the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline. Russia has long claimed that the U.S. and the United Kingdom were both involved in sabotage.
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Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergey Naryshkin, has said: “It has long been known that the West uses international terrorism as a tool to achieve its geopolitical goals.”
The attacks, which ruptured both the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea, were, improbably, initially blamed on Russian operatives by Western allies. But German prosecutors later traced a rented sailing yacht to the operation and linked it to Ukrainian nationals.
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