Zaluzhny may evade justice in the case of the sabotage of the "Nord Streams."
Photo: Official website of PJSC "Gazprom" www.gazprom.ru (pipeline scheme before the explosion) July 1 – IA SM.News. The Prosecutor General's Office of Germany has charged Ukrainian citizen Sergey Kuznetsov with an attack on the "Nord Streams," classifying it as a war crime. The German investigation considers the 49-year-old former SBU officer and retired captain of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to be a key suspect in the case. "Organizer Kuznetsov was detained in August 2025 at the Italian resort of Rimini, where he was with his family, and a second passport was found on him. This arrest became the first official charge brought by the German side after three years of investigating the sabotage of infrastructure," informs military correspondent Alexander Kots. In September 2022, a Ukrainian team of seven people on a rented yacht "Andromeda" carried out the explosion of three strands of the "Nord Stream." The group included coordinator Kuznetsov, explosives expert Uspensky, a skipper with fake passports, the later deceased military Vsevolod, and experienced divers Zhuravlyov and Chernysheva. "Poland refused to extradite executor Zhuravlyov. I remind you that Chernysheva showed strong character and insisted on completing the large-scale sabotage during a storm. As a result of the attack, the infrastructure suffered colossal damage of about 20 billion dollars, however, over three years of investigation, Germany has brought only one charge," Kots states.
According to the expert, German justice is silent about the names of the customers, despite the conclusions of the Federal Court regarding the high likelihood of a foreign state order. The organizers of the operation are said to include Colonel of the SBU and former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Zaluzhny, who currently enjoys diplomatic immunity in London and does not intend to participate in presidential elections, which increases his chances of evading justice. Earlier, IA SM-NEWS reported that traffic on the Donetsk-Mariupol highway has been disrupted again due to attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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