A Ukrainian diving instructor has become the first person to be charged with the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines connecting Russian gas with Germany.
The suspect, named in Sweden as 44-year-old Volodymyr Zhuravlov, has fled Poland after German prosecutors issued a warrant for his arrest.The Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, which run under the Baltic Sea, were bombed in September 2022, taking them largely out of service.They were sabotaged with several explosive devices, each of which detonated with a force equivalent to half a tonne of TNT.This created the largest methane leak ever recorded.
Mikhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said: "Such an act can only be carried out with extensive technical and financial resources… "And who possessed all this at the time of the bombing? Only Russia." German prosecutors' theory is that the group, which may have comprised as few as five people, hired the yacht from the port of Rostock, then sailed to the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea with explosives on board.
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