A Ukrainian, suspected of being one of the coordinators of the Sabotage Command of the Russian North current in the Baltic Sea in 2022, was arrested Thursday in Italy, announced the office of the German federal prosecutor. “The German Federal Prosecutor’s Office made the arrest on the basis of a European arrest warrant of the Ukrainian citizen Serhii K., by the Italian police, in the province of Rimini (Italy),” said a statement.
“Serhii K. was part of a group of people who, in September 2022, placed explosives in the gas pipe” Nord Stream 1 ‘and’ North Stream 2 ‘near the island [danoise, ndlr] From Bornholm “in the Baltic Sea, writes the office of the German federal prosecutor, specialized in terrorism matters. It is probably one of the coordinators of the” sabotage operation, he adds.
A sailboat left Germany
“For transport, he and his accomplices used a sailboat that had left Rostock,” a port city in Northern Germany next to the Baltic Sea, the Prosecutor’s Office continues.
“The explosives had detonated on September 26, 2022. The explosions seriously damaged the two gas pipes,” said the Prosecutor’s Office. After his transfer from the Italian authorities to Germany, the Ukrainian suspect must appear to the Judge of the German Federal Court. The attacks against the Nord Nord Stream network that transports Russian gas to Western Europe, Russia and Western are initially responsible for sabotage have never been claimed.
Source: BFM TV
