Nord Stream 2

Italy´s top court has rejected the extradition of a Ukrainian man arrested on suspicion of setting off explosions on gas pipelines.

A Ukrainian citizen suspected to be one of the coordinators of the undersea explosions in 2022 has been arrested, German prosecutors said.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is reportedly seeking to impose sanctions to prevent the repair of the Nord Stream pipelines and to prevent the link between Russia and Germany from being restored should a Ukraine peace deal be brokered, sparking a backlash from populists within the top EU economy.

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended the gas deals she made with Russia saying they helped German firms and kept the peace with Moscow, revealing the strategy in her memoir Freedom, released in 30 languages on Tuesday.

Michigan’s Democrat Senate candidate, Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), remained silent as President Joe Biden declined to impose sanctions in 2021 on Nord Stream 2 AG, the company behind the Russian gas pipeline to Germany, which a donor to one of Slotkin’s Congressional campaigns lobbied for.

Former President Donald Trump asserted that President Joe Biden “approved” the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

Czech President Petr Pavel said that attacking the partially German-owned Nord Stream pipelines would have been a “legitimate” target for Ukraine.

Germany issues first arrest warrant over bombing of the gas pipelines from Russia to Europe, saying it is seeking a Ukrainian citizen.

A Chinese container ship remains the prime suspect in causing damage last year to a Baltic Sea gas pipeline between NATO members.

Told Tucker the U.S. has, in his opinion, the motive and the means to blow up the gas pipeline, but provided no evidence to back it up.

Swedish officials decided to close their investigation into the September 2022 explosions on the underwater Nord Stream gas pipelines.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says he does not believe Donald Trump would halt U.S. support for the war against Russia.

Monday on Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) raised questions about the 2022 apparent sabotage of the Nord Stream 2 as apparent revelations of a Ukrainian soldier’s involvement have surfaced.

The bombing of the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines was reportedly orchestrated by Roman Chervinsky, a senior Ukrainian military officer.

Biden blamed Russia for the attack on the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline last September, despite his administration receiving intelligence three months earlier that Ukrainian forces planned to conduct such an attack.

Germany’s FBI equivalent considering Ukraine as perpetrator of last year’s destruction of a key energy pipeline, it is claimed.

The Ukrainian government has insisted they had nothing to do with an attack that blew up part of the Russo-German Nord Stream gas pipelines.

No evidence that Moscow was involved in the suspected sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea has been found so far, a German investigator has admitted.

A Swiss court has granted a six-month “stay of bankruptcy” to the operating company for the never-opened Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

A top Kremlin spokesman told reporters on Thursday that neither the Russian side nor European vendors have decided if rebuilding the severely damaged Nord Stream natural gas pipelines will be worth it.

Swedish investigators found traces of explosives at the Baltic Sea site where two pipelines were damaged in an act of “gross sabotage”.

Russia’s ambassador to the United Kingdom has warned that Britain is “too deep” in the Ukraine war, bringing the NATO member “up to the line” of “no return” in terms of a possible conflict with Moscow.

Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has denied Russian allegations that the Royal Navy directed Ukrainian drone strikes against the Black Sea Fleet and facilitated the “terrorist attack” on the Nord Stream pipelines.

Britain’s Royal Navy helped to execute the “terrorist attack” which damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines from Russia to the European Union, the Russian defence ministry has alleged.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced a deal with Vladimir Putin to make Turkey a natural gas hub for Russian energy for Europe.

164 feet of Nord Stream One is gone following the alleged sabotage of the pipelines, which is confirmed to have been caused by an explosion.

A declassified document has shown the German government determined that energy security “won’t be jeopardised” by reliance on Russian gas.

Moscow is ready to resume gas supplies to Europe via the one pipe of Germany-bound Nord Stream that didn’t explode, Putin says.

Swedish conservative and populist parties have expressed opposition to allowing the repair of the damaged Nord Stream pipelines as Swedish investigators have confirmed they were damaged by explosions.

The EU vowed to introduce checks on key infrastructure, including energy, after the suspected sabotage of pipelines in the Baltic Sea.

The prosecutor in charge of the investigation into leaks from pipelines said Tuesday that he has ordered the area to be closed

Chinese Deputy Representative to the United Nations Geng Shuang urged the world to organize an “objective, impartial, and professional investigation” into multiple leaks on the Nord Stream pipelines connecting Russia and Europe in remarks to the United Nations this weekend.

Sweden has sent a vessel capable of “advanced diving missions” to the Baltic Sea area where undersea pipelines ruptured.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday accused the West of sabotaging Russia-built natural gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea to Germany, a charge vehemently denied by the United States and its allies.

The Nord Stream pipe blasts in the Baltic sea were likely caused by “detonations” of equivalent to “several hundred kilos” of explosives.

The Chinese government-run newspaper Global Times speculated on Thursday that China has the capacity to export refined oil to Europe as a means of replacing the lost natural gas that would have come in from the broken Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic.