Ukrainian man was arrested in Italy during 2022 Nord Stream Gas Cabotage, German prosecutors say

Berlin – Ukrainian suspects were arrested in Italy during 2022 sabotage of Nord Stream gas pipelines From Russia to Europe. Prosecutors said that the suspect, partially called the name of Sirhi K.

He added, “It is believed that he was one of the coordinators of the operation.”

The Nord Stream pipelines linking Russia and Germany across the Baltic Sea in September 2022 were exposed due to huge underwater explosions, which are believed to be a sabotage action.

In the years after the mysterious explosions, Ukraine and Russia have denied any involvement.

German media reported that the investigation referred to a Ukrainian cell consisting of five men and a woman who rented the “Andromeda” yacht from the port of Rostock and carried out the attack.

Their goal was to destroy the pipelines to prevent The battle of the enemy of Russia From future benefit from gas sales to Europe, according to Der Spiegel and other media.

German prosecutors said that you will be. He was arrested in the early hours of Thursday in the Italian province of Remini. They said that his partners were accused of using a yacht that left Rostuk to carry out the attack.

“A yacht has been rented by a German company with the help of the forged identity documents obtained through the brokers,” they added.

The news of the arrest comes about one year after the German media reported that a European arrest warrant was requested to another Ukrainian man, a diving coach, the last known address in Poland, regarding the attack on Nord Stream pipelines.

The Polish Prosecutor’s Office told AFP in August 2024 that he had had Receive the man’s memo – It was identified only as “Volodymyr Z.” Two months ago, “regarding procedures against him in Germany.”

At that time, the Prosecutor’s Office said that the man who left for Ukraine at the beginning of July 2024, before he was detained.

German investigators believe that Volodymyr Z. was one of the divers who Explosive devices planted on pipelinesAccording to the ARD broadcaster in Germany and newspapers dies Zeit and Seddeutsche Zeitung.

Two others of the Ukrainians, a man and a woman who believed in prosecutors as a number of attacks and is believed to be a married couple who deliver a diving school in Ukraine, by the investigators at least a year ago, according to Germany’s reports.

The arrest announced by the German authorities on Thursday was the first associated with the case.