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August 22, 2025

Ukrainian Man Accused of Sabotaging Nord Stream Pipelines Is Arrested in Italy
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Police in Italy say they've arrested a Ukrainian man suspected of
coordinating the sabotage of three Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022.
The undersea explosions caused severe damage to infrastructure built to
carry natural gas from Russia to Western Europe. The United States
initially blamed the sabotage on Russia. German federal prosecutors have
identified the suspect only as 49-year-old "Serhii K." He's allegedly
part of a small team of Ukrainians who used a rented yacht, satellite
navigation, sonar and seabed maps to plant timer-controlled explosives
on pipelines on the bottom of the Baltic Sea.


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