Ukraine's top prosecutor says no signs of Kyiv being behind Nord Stream blasts
Ukraine says no evidence links its officials to the 2022 pipeline blasts and proposes a joint team with Germany as a former soldier faces trial.
- On Thursday, Ukraine's Prosecutor General denied any Kyiv involvement in the September 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions, stating investigators found no evidence linking Ukrainian officials or state entities to the sabotage.
- German federal prosecutors charged former Ukrainian army officer Serhii K. as a co-perpetrator of a war crime, alleging he collaborated with military personnel to disrupt gas deliveries and curtail Russian war financing.
- Damaging the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea, the September 2022 explosions occurred months after Russia's February 2022 invasion, disrupting vital gas export routes to Europe.
- In response, the Prosecutor General proposed forming a joint investigation team with Germany, pledging continued cooperation and stating, "Ukraine is prepared to help clarify all the facts of the case."
- After his arrest in Italy in August and transfer to Germany in November, Serhii K. denies the charges, while German authorities maintain that unspecified Ukrainian state entities ordered the attacks.
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The Ukrainian Public Prosecutor's Office held that "no facts have been established to date to indicate the participation of the State of Ukraine."
After the indictment of an ex-soldier, the Ukrainian prosecutor's office denies a state involvement in the North Stream attack.
Kiev denies the participation of Ukrainian state bodies in the North Stream sabotage.
The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine stated on Thursday that Ukraine's involvement in the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines has not been established.
Ukraine's top prosecutor says no signs of Kyiv being behind Nord Stream blasts
Ukraine's Prosecutor General denied on Thursday Kyiv's involvement in blowing up the Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022, and proposed forming a joint investigation team with Germany, which suspects that Ukrainian state entities were behind the explosions.
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