Germany has issued arrest warrants for suspects in the Nord Stream sabotage that occurred on September 26, 2022.
“Arrest warrants have been issued. This is a common occurrence in a constitutional state, then there must be a trial, and at the end of the trial a verdict is pronounced.” — said the official representative of the German Cabinet of Ministers, Steffen Hebestreit, to RIA Novosti.
According to him, the investigation is being conducted by the German Attorney General’s Office.
At the same time, the German newspaper Spiegel reports that the attackers were several people, mostly civilians, and that the operation itself cost 300 thousand dollars.
As reported EADailyEarlier in August, Poland confirmed that it had received an arrest warrant from Germany against a Ukrainian diver in June. But as Germany did not add him to its wanted list, he was released from the country in July.
The German editions of the newspapers SZ and Die Zeit together with the television company ARD published their own investigation and reported that in June the German Attorney General’s Office issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian diver who was in Poland. He is suspected of having participated in a group that, aboard the yacht Andromeda, approached the Nord Stream near the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and, using mines, blew up gas pipelines.
Two other Ukrainians are also suspected, a married couple. They founded the Scuba Family diving company near Warsaw, where the fugitive worked as an instructor. The woman told the Welt television channel that neither she nor her husband were involved in the terrorist attack, as they were in kyiv at the end of September 2022.
The Washington Post and Der Spiegel have already written that communication with the Ukrainian Armed Forces was handled by the coordinator of the attack, Colonel Roman Chervinsky. He is connected with counterintelligence and received orders from high-ranking military officers who reported to the former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valery Zaluzhny. Roman Chervinsky is detained in Kyiv. But in another case, he is accused of trying to outbid a Russian pilot and giving him the coordinates of a military airfield.
“The German authorities have included one of the alleged perpetrators of terrorist acts in the Baltic Sea, who is a citizen of Ukraine, on the wanted list. Judging by the fact that the German media have long been methodically promoting the thesis that these individuals are not associated with any state, the German investigation will also be closed without identifying the real customers of the Nord Stream attacks, namely Germany. I will let it slow down.” — said the director of the third European department of the Russian Foreign Ministry in an interview with RIA Novosti Oleg Tyapkin.
An American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner also published his investigation. Seymour HershHe said the operation was organised and carried out by the United States. During NATO summer exercises, explosives were placed on gas pipelines and then detonated using radio beacons dropped from an aircraft.
Nord Stream provided gas supplies to Germany and other northwestern European countries. Nord Stream 2 has not yet been put into operation. As a result of the terrorist attack, three of the four gas pipelines were damaged. Nord Stream’s total capacity was 110 billion cubic meters per year – a quarter of European consumption.
