US EditionItalian court orders extradition to Germany of Nord Stream sabotage suspect
- An Italian court ordered on September 16, 2025, that Ukrainian national Serhii K. be extradited to Germany over Nord Stream pipeline sabotage.
- The extradition follows investigations of underwater explosions in September 2022 that damaged German-owned Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in Danish and Swedish waters.
- Serhii K. faces charges including collusion to cause explosions and sabotage, and his lawyers intend to appeal up to Italy’s highest court.
- The blasts damaged the Nord Stream pipelines, cutting off Russian gas deliveries to Europe, which heightened concerns about energy security and led Germany, Denmark, and Sweden to initiate a collaborative inquiry.
- The extradition order marks a significant legal step in the ongoing probes, while German authorities also conducted raids against alleged far-right extremists on September 16, 2025.
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Man was arrested in August during a family vacation on the Adriatic
On Tuesday, the Court of Appeal of Bologna, in northern Italy, ordered the extradition to Germany of a Ukrainian suspected by the German court of being one of the commando coordinators who sabotaged the Russian Nord Stream gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea in September 2022. ...
An Italian court ordered the extradition to Germany of a Ukrainian man suspected of coordinating attacks on North Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea in 2022, as reported by a...
Italian court approves extradition of Ukrainian suspect Sehrii Kuznetsov to Germany over Nord Stream sabotage
An Italian court has authorized the transfer to Germany of 49-year-old Ukrainian Sergei Kuznetsov, who is suspected of organizing the explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, German broadcaster ntv reported. The exact date of the handover has not been set. Kuznetsov was arrested in late August on the Adriatic coast. According to Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office, Kuznetsov was part of a group that in September 2022 planted explosives on …
Ukrainian Serhij K., arrested under a European order last month in Italy for his alleged involvement in the blasting of Nord Stream pipelines, may be...
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