He was an officer of the SBU and Captain of the Armed Forces: who is suspected of "northern streams"

To spread: in Italy detained a Ukrainian suspected of coordination of sabotage at the Nord Stream gas pipelines. According to the media, he is a retired captain of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and has previously served in the Security Service of Ukraine. According to The Wall Street Journal, the suspect was identified as Sergei K. , who headed a small group of soldiers and civilian divers involved in a secret operation to lay out explosives on the Nord Streams 1 and Nord Streams in 2022.

The operation, known under the code name "Diameter", was controlled by the former Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny. The Italian police detained Sergei K. near the coastal city of San Clemente when he accompanied his son to the university. He was tracked after he used the Ukrainian passport to buy flights to Poland and book a hotel in Italy. The suspect is in custody, he has no lawyer, and the decision to extradition to Germany will be made by the Court of Appeal in Bologna.

German prosecutors suspect Sergei K. in coordination of diversion, jointly causing an explosion, anti -constitutional sabotage and destruction of infrastructure. After extradition, he will be taken to the investigating judge of the Federal Court of Germany, and in the case of condemnation, he is threatened with up to 15 years in prison with a possible reduction in the term of cooperation with the investigation.

The publication also notes that the diversion was carried out in September 2022 and did not lead to the dead or wounded, but influenced the energy markets of Europe, leaving Russia with a single route of gas supply to Europe through Ukraine. The Nord Stream gas pipelines were one of the largest offshore gas arteries in the world, capable of transporting up to 110 billion cubic meters of gas annually.

Earlier it was reported that in Italy detained a citizen of Ukraine, who is suspected of involvement in the blasting of the Nord Stream-1 and North Stream-2 gas pipelines. Moreover, this year the media have already assumed that the special services of Russia killed in Kiev by the Colonel of the SBU Ivan Voronich and the deputy in the unit of the SCO Colonel Roman Chervinsky could coordinate explosions on the "north streams".

The Times also wrote that diversion allegedly financed the Ukrainian businessman, but he was not related to the Ukrainian authorities. According to journalists, the Western special services decided not to publish this information to protect Ukraine. At the same time, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky denied Ukraine's involvement in the northern streams. He stressed that such accusations are only beneficial to Russia and business groups interested in weakening sanctions against Moscow.