German prosecutors accuse Kyiv of ordering 2022 Nord Stream sabotage

Kuznietsov allegedly entered Germany via Poland on 4 September 2022 using a forged Ukrainian passport, the prosecutors said.

Shortly afterwards, he is alleged to have boarded an ocean-going sailing yacht with the other members of the group. The vessel had previously been chartered from a German company in Rostock using fake IDs, according to the prosecutors’ case.

Kuznietsov and his accomplices allegedly transported large quantities of weapons-grade explosives to a site near the Danish island of Bornholm and the group “affixed explosive devices fitted with timers to the gas pipelines running along the seabed”.

Authorities have specific information about how the mission was conducted, so it sounds legit.  I’m glad the US had nothing to do with it.

The Nord Stream pipeline supplied half of the natural gas that Germany needed, so blowing it up was a devastating attack on German infrastructure.  If Germany had not abandoned it’s nuclear power plants after the Fukushima disaster, their energy supply would not be so vulnerable.