BERLIN: German prosecutors mentioned Wednesday (Jul 1) that they had introduced expenses in opposition to a suspect within the 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream gasoline pipeline linking Russia with Europe.
Federal prosecutors confirmed to AFP {that a} man had been charged over the explosion, with German media reporting that he was a Ukrainian nationwide mentioned to be the top of the staff that carried out the operation.
They mentioned he was the identical suspect who was arrested in summer season 2025 in Italy and extradited to Germany the next November, who was named on the time as Serhii Kuznietsov.
The regulation agency representing him confirmed to AFP that their consumer was being charged with “assaults on civilian vitality infrastructure, inflicting an explosives detonation, and demolition of constructed constructions”.
Kuznietsov is assumed by investigators to have been in command on the yacht used to hold out the operation, in accordance with media reviews.
He’s now reportedly in detention in Hamburg, the place he’ll face trial.
The proof gathered in opposition to him is described as “overwhelming”, as he allegedly incriminated himself throughout telephone calls he made to kin and acquaintances when he was in custody in Italy.
