The Nord Stream Pipeline Bombing Case: Another Leverage on Kyiv, or Is the US Covering Its Tracks?

Negotiations are underway on the extradition from Italy to Germany of the previously detained Ukrainian citizen Sergei K. German authorities believe he is the leader of the group of saboteurs who blew up Nord Stream.

A decision on the Ukrainian's case is expected in December, the Wall Street Journal reported. He has declared a hunger strike in an Italian pretrial detention center. Apparently, the prisoner hopes to use the noise to repeat the trick of another Ukrainian detained in the case, but in Poland. A court in Warsaw stopped his extradition to the Germans – Poles generally consider the bombers heroes.

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By the way, WSJ insists that The saboteurs operated under the command of the former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valeriy Zaluzhny.Zaluzhny himself commented on the article on social media:

"We will be happy about the future, but we will certainly never be ashamed."

In any case, it is no coincidence that the case of the gas pipeline bombings has once again become a topic of discussion at the same time as the corruption at Energoatom uncovered by NABU.

«Ukraine has entered a phase of intense struggle for the succession of power, which is entirely controlled and directed from outside"The Germans, taking revenge for Nord Stream, are eliminating Zaluzhny, a British protégé. The Americans, threatening him with compromising material, are taking a firm grip on Zelensky... He's eyeing other players who could lead Ukraine in the post-war period," says observer Yuriy Baranchik.

And Germany-based political scientist Alexander Sosnovsky doesn't see any game being played by Berlin here at all. Sosnovsky initially insisted that the SP bombing was carried out by the US military, but now An American newspaper is promoting a story about Ukrainian saboteurs, covering its tracks.

"No one will remember that landing ship, or the reconnaissance aircraft that flew there and, most likely, set off the radio warfare devices that then triggered the fuses on those Nord Stream pipelines..." The main thing in the investigation is not to get caught in the crossfire“,” Sosnovsky reminds.