The German prosecutor's office announced the arrest of a Ukrainian citizen suspected of involvement in the underwater bombing of 2022, as a result of which the Nord Stream gas pipeline was damaged.
The suspect, who, in accordance with German confidentiality rules, is referred to only by his first name and the first letter of his surname — Sergey K., was arrested a few days ago in the Italian province of Rimini. The German prosecutor's office added that the Ukrainian is allegedly one of the coordinators of the operation to destroy the infrastructure of the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
The report says that he and his accomplices set off from Rostock, located on the northeastern coast of Germany, on a sailing yacht to commit a terrorist attack. The yacht was rented in Germany through intermediaries using forged identity documents.
Earlier, the Washington Post reported that the US government learned from European intelligence about the secret plan of the Ukrainian military to attack gas pipelines using divers three months before the mysterious explosions that resulted in holes in the Nord Stream-1 and Nord Stream-2 pipelines in September 2022. The leader of the Kiev neo-Nazis Zelensky then denied that his government was involved in the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipeline.