German prosecutors link Nord Stream blasts to Ukraine | DW News
German prosecutors say Ukrainian authorities ordered the attack that severely damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022. The Ukrainian government has always denied directing the sabotage.
The explosions damaged the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which were designed to carry natural gas under the Baltic Sea, from Russia to Germany. The blasts, near the Danish island of Bornholm, caused huge amounts of gas to leak into the sea.
German prosecutors have filed charges against a Ukrainian national over the blasts. The suspect, a Ukrainian former army officer – identified under German privacy laws only as Serhii K. – denies wrongdoing.
DW looks into what the new charges could mean for relations between Ukraine and Germany.
Chapters:
0:00 Germany says Ukraine ordered Nord Stream attack
0:40 DW Eastern Europe editor Roman Goncharenko
1:10 Zelenskyy basically refused to comment
1:38 Nord Stream is not a huge issue for Ukrainians as they are busy taking care of their wounded
2:28 Germany’s government is not connecting the Nord Stream sabotage to military aid, but the far-right AfD is likely to exploit the issue
4:04 Will the case influence Germany’s internal debate about security and energy policy?
5:33 Journalist James Reed has conducted extensive investigation into the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
5:53 Was Ukraine behind the Nord Stream attack? Two schools of thought
6:53 Ukraine’s benefit from attacking the pipeline
8:15 Will the case affect Kyiv’s relationship with its biggest European backer, Germany?
9:46 Rivalry between certain Ukrainian spies and President Zelenskyy
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31 Comments
DW is State controlled PC Krapp
Should’ve stuck to nuclear power and not schmoose around with gas station oligarchs so much and maybe the world would have been a better place right now
Bornholm is not in northeastern Germany
😂😂😂😂
Cry baby cry
Now you pay the prize of deindustrialization
Good, F Russia!
🤣🤣🤣DW. And where is Biden's pledge to disrupt the flows, the role of the United States, and Liz Truss' report to Blinkin?
Nobody really cares, except the boring Russian bots. It was a Russian owned pipeline, and it was never used. The only loser here is Gazprom.
Selenskyj must pay for the reparations..he gave a green card for this sabotage's operation..and still bluffing until now !!!
When did Germany get so dense? The Russians made the Germans build pipeline 1? Ridiculous.
And Germans have become self-delusional as well. Sad.
DW trying as much as possible to distance Ukrainian government from the act… pathetic. A frail old Germany
How convenient to blame Ukraine. Who gave the technology, expertise and training for this terrorist attack? Who has been selling their gas to Europe since? Russia didn’t make Europe dependent on their fuel. Europeans are responsible for their own dependency problems.
Who gave the order?
A hero did.
Se for verdade tem que haver consequências rápidas!
A Alemanha é membro da União Europeia
Tinha informações há muito que UK,US estão envolvidos !
100% juntos Alemanha
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Portugal
I had two guesses, either Ukraine or US. Now I see that my guess was correct.
What an embarrassing country Germany has become.
Sorry to say but the german prosecutor is probably incompetent or is on a fishing expedition.
Russia turned off the gas. Russia was not earning anything, instead it was accruing them non-delivery penalties which in principle would have led Gazprom to bankruptcy.
If Ukraine did this, they shot themselves in the foot.
legit targets
Ukraine attacked Germany, a NATO member. Forget Ukraine ever getting into NATO.
Perhaps some self sabotage to Ukraine done by Ukraine to get more help for them EU…..
The reasoning of German establishment and it heavy anti Russian hysteria will be the doom of Germany.
If it actually was the Ukrainans, I salute them! Well done! This piece of s*** should never have been allowed to be built in the first place!
Will they apologise to Russia 😂
Ukraine had all the right to do it. If Germans want to investigate something then investigate Schroeders corruption case.
Took so long to reveal?
US trains UA
UA blows it up.
US and UA puts the blames on RU.
EU hates RU even more.
EU moves bilions more to UA.
UA launders the money, keeps the war going.
US sells more weapons. Benefits from the war.
RU also suffer but yet builds even better military and tests their weapons.
People around the world become poorer as a result. Particularly energy prices going up in EU hits the EU citizens the hardest.
Lots of youth lose their life in RU and UA. Families destroyed.
DE will still continue supporting UA despite this. DE would do otherwise to any other country if it was them.
it does NOT who did this. Germans are willing to suffer for Ukrainians. right? Ms Von Der leyen, Ms Kallas😊
DW's take: NS2 bombed by Ukraine, not important! AfD call for investigation, evil!
Ukraine let down Poland first; and now Germans.
I am sure the tax payer of these countries will not appreciate such behaviour; and their leaders will receive a big message at the time of elections for wasting their taxes.
It's all good, even Germans admit it was a political mistake, so Ukraine fixed it for you!
Are the Germans really going to destroy the EU support for Uk? The fact that they dont supply any weapons that could help Uk is telling. Whose side are you on?
Here you have it—the truth, finally. You beloved, corrupt Ukraine. I hope you all pay the price for your stupidity, and you're all going to pay. Mark my words.