{"id":554104,"date":"2026-07-03T10:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=554104"},"modified":"2026-07-03T10:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:17:10","slug":"ukraine-ordered-nord-stream-sabotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/ukraine-ordered-nord-stream-sabotage\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ukraine ordered Nord Stream sabotage\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> BERLIN<br \/>\nUkrainian state authorities were behind the 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline linking Russia with Europe, German prosecutors charged Thursday, a move that complicates close relations between Kyiv and its key military backer Berlin. The explosives attack in the Baltic Sea destroyed three of four seafloor pipelines of the major energy link to Germany and released record amounts of methane into the atmosphere.<br \/>\nIn a statement detailing the charges brought against one suspect, German prosecutors said that he and other members of the Ukrainian military had acted \u201con the orders of state authorities in Ukraine\u201d.<br \/>\nThe case is awkward for Germany and Ukraine at a time Germany, Europe\u2019s biggest economy, has emerged as the biggest military backer of Ukraine in its war against Russia The suspect in question was arrested in summer 2025 in Italy and extradited to Germany the following November, and was named at the time as Serhii Kuznietsov.<br \/>\nIn Thursday\u2019s statement prosecutors said he was \u201can officer in the Ukrainian army\u201d and that following Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, \u201che and other members of the military\u2026 developed a plan to destroy\u201d the pipeline\u201d in order to deprive Russia of gas revenues. \u2014 DNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN Ukrainian state authorities were behind the 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline linking Russia with Europe, German prosecutors charged Thursday, a move that complicates close relations between Kyiv and its key military backer Berlin. 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