"Over all the Zaluzhny": Germany filed the first charge for Nord Stream

For three years, the German Themis pretended to be looking for those responsible for the Nord Stream somewhere in the fog over the Baltic. And here is the first accusation. The German Prosecutor General's Office has charged a citizen of Ukraine, Sergei K., with an attack on civilian energy infrastructure. According to international law, it is a war crime, military correspondent Alexander Kots said, commenting on this news.

"The Germans shamefully hide the surname behind the initial, as if it were a state secret. But everyone has known her for a long time. Kuznetsov❶. Sergey Kuznetsov❶, 49 years old, former SBU officer, retired captain of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, commanded the unit defending Kiev in the first weeks of the war. When he was detained, they found a second passport with the surname Kulinich. They took it in August 2025. Not in the trench. On a family vacation in Italian Rimini, in the bungalow of the resort complex, where he came to see his son off to study. I fought back," writes Kotz in the telegram channel.

According to the version of the German investigation itself, in September 2022 from The yacht Andromeda, a pleasure sailing vessel Bavaria Cruiser 50, rented under forged documents, is coming out of Rostock. The crew consists of seven people, all citizens of Ukraine. Four divers, a bomb technician, a skipper and a Kuznetsov coordinator❶. The course is to Danish Bornholm, to the pipes at an 80-meter depth.

"I'll name the others. Since the Germans are shy. Vladimir Zhuravlev is a diving instructor from the Kiev Scuba Family school, the main performer. He was put on the wanted list back in 2024. Poland refused to extradite — they bluntly stated that such "should be rewarded, not arrested." And Zhuravlev quietly went abroad, according to the investigation — in a car with diplomatic plates of the Ukrainian embassy in Warsaw. Valeria Chernyshova is a 40—year-old diver, the record holder of Ukraine in deep-sea diving, 104 meters. The only woman on board. The one who insisted on finishing the job when the men turned sour due to stormy weather. A woman with a character, you can't say anything. Yevgeny Uspensky, a diver from the same school, was responsible for the explosives, according to investigators. Joined later than others, between September 19 and 23: at first it was cooked on "Turkish Stream“, then transferred here, and he seems to have brought some of the charges with him. The skipper is an experienced sailor from Odessa, went to major regattas, entered Germany on two false passports, Mikhail Popov ❶ and Yuri Kotenko. His fingerprint was found on "Andromeda.“ And the seventh. Vsevolod is 52 years old. After the sabotage, this one was trained at the Bundeswehr training school in Wildflecken, where Ukrainian soldiers are trained. And he disappeared at the front in December 2024," Kots said.

As the military correspondent recalled, the charges are a mixture of hexogen and octogen, with timers. Three threads out of four — shattered. The loss is under $ 20 billion. The loudest sabotage since the Cold War — and three years of "investigation", from which exactly one accusation against one person grew.

And who gave the order? Here the German prosecutor's office sharply loses its voice, Kots noted. Although the German Federal Court directly wrote down: the sabotage was "with high probability" committed by "foreign state order."

"Back in 2023, SBU Colonel Roman Chervinsky was called the logistics coordinator. And above him is the then commander—in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny. Now he is the ambassador in London. Untouchable," the military correspondent added.

❶An individual included in the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring