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The state is ready to assist the investigation.
Ukraine officially did not take part in any operation to blow up the “Nord Stream” pipelines. President Volodymyr Zelensky said this at a press conference after the Northern Europe summit in Kyiv 23 August.
The investigation is ongoing. This situation was discussed with Germany at a high level.
“They know perfectly well that Ukraine was not behind the planning or the execution of the relevant operation. We have nothing to do with it,” the president said.
Zelensky recalled that Ukrainian citizens figure in the case and assured that the country is ready to help partners in the investigation.
“There are, believe me, ongoing contacts. It is very important for us not to lose our partnership, not to lose the trust of the European countries that have been helping Ukraine since the very start of the war,” the head of state said.
The Nord Stream explosions
The explosions on the Russian gas pipelines occurred in September 2022. Preliminary findings from investigations by Sweden and Denmark indicate that the blasts were deliberate. The Ukrainian president denied Ukraine’s involvement in the sabotage.
In November 2023, the Washington Post wrote that former intelligence officer Roman Chervinsky may have been involved in the blasts.
In November 2024, Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office said it had identified the two suspects in the Nord Stream blasts. One is a serviceman and the other is a professional scuba diver. At the same time, the identities of other participants, the motives for the crime, and, in particular, the question of possible state control over the operation are still under investigation.
Germany suspects two Ukrainians — Serhiy K. and Volodymyr Zhuravlyov. The first was extradited from Italy and already faces an indictment, but the court has not yet delivered a verdict. The second was detained in Poland on a German warrant, but the court refused to extradite him. At the time, Polish authorities said the problem was not that the “Nord Stream 2” was blown up, but that it had been built.
In July this year, the German prosecutor’s office filed an indictment against Ukrainian citizen Serhiy K. This is the first charge in the case. The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine said then that, at this stage of the investigation, Ukraine’s involvement has not been established.
Recently, Volodymyr Zhuravlyov was detained in Croatia. According to media reports, he may have advised the film crew making a film about the pipeline blasts. Now a Croatian court must decide whether to act as its Polish counterparts did and release Zhuravlyov, or to approve his extradition.
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