The German Federal Prosecutor’s Office filed the first indictment in the case of attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in September 2022 against a Ukrainian who allegedly helped organize them. Several German media reported on this on Wednesday, and the reports were confirmed by the defendant’s lawyers. TASR writes about it according to the website of German television ARD and agency DPA.

According to their information, the ex-soldier himself was convicted of wiretapped phone calls.

According to investigators, he led the sabotage team and was also the commander of the Andromeda sailboat used in the attacks. He was extradited to pretrial detention in Hamburg from Italy, where the authorities detained him last summer while on vacation.

. The Ukrainian talked about the attacks, among other things, with relatives and acquaintances in phone calls from Italian detention, and documents about his involvement in the attacks were also found in his mobile phone, security sources said.

According to the knowledge of German investigators, the Federal Court of Justice wrote about the course of the sabotage action in the decision by which it rejected Serhij K.’s appeal against the detention.

Andromeda v prístave Wiek na ostrove Rujana. Later, near the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, she attached four time bombs to gas pipeline pipes on the seabed. They allegedly used military explosives with great destructive power.

ktoré boli vybudované na vývoz zemného plynu z Ruska do Nemecka. Before Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, more than half of Russian gas intended for the German market flowed through the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline. Nord Stream 2 was not yet in operation at the time of the attack.