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Nord Stream trial: Russia used pipelines as ‘weapon’, defence says
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PUBLISHEDOct 14, 2026, 1:43 PM
What the source reports
A lawyer for a Ukrainian accused of blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines supplying Russian gas to western Europe said on Wednesday that Moscow used the network to exert political and economic pressure, as the former military officer’s trial opened in Germany.
Sergiy Kuznietsov is the first person to go on trial over the 2022 sabotage. The 50-year-old is accused of leading a Ukrainian team of divers and an explosives…
Main source: SCMP
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