The New York Times reported in 2023 that intelligence reviewed by US officials indicated a pro-Ukraine group<\/a> was behind the attack.<\/p>\n There was no evidence that Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy or any other Kyiv official was behind the attacks which spewed natural gas into the Baltic Sea, the report added.<\/p>\n Germany’s justice minister Stefanie Hubig said the arrest of the suspect this week was an “impressive success” for Germany’s state prosecutors.<\/p>\n She added: “The bombing of the pipelines must be investigated, including through criminal prosecution. Therefore, it is good that we are making progress in this regard.”<\/p>\n Italian police confirmed the arrest to Sky News.<\/p>\n Denmark and Sweden closed their Nord Stream pipeline investigations in February 2024, leaving Germany as the only Danish authorities concluded there was “deliberate sabotage of the gas pipelines” but found “insufficient grounds The leaks occurred in international waters but within the exclusive economic zone of Denmark and Sweden.<\/p>\n The explosions ruptured the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which was Russia’s main natural gas supply route to Germany until Moscow cut off supplies at the end of August 2022.<\/p>\n They also damaged the 764-mile Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which never entered service because Germany suspended its certification process shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine in February of that year.<\/p>\n The damaged Nord Stream pipelines, which were built by Russia’s state-controlled energy company Gazprom, discharged huge amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the air for several days.<\/p>\n This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly.<\/p>\n Please refresh the page for the latest version.<\/p>\n You can receive breaking news alerts on a smartphone or tablet via the Sky News app<\/a>. You can also follow us on WhatsApp<\/a> and subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/a> to keep up with the latest news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italian police have arrested a Ukrainian man suspected of coordinating the 2022 attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-82544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/skynews-nord-stream-pipeline_5913391.jpg\")
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country continuing to pursue the case.<\/p>\n
to pursue a criminal case”, while Sweden closed its investigation citing a lack of jurisdiction.<\/p>\n