Mr. Kirill Dmitriev - special envoy of the Russian President on investment and economic cooperation with countries, and also General Director of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) - said that Germany's deindustrialization and economic decline began after the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline system. The gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea once supplied cheap gas from Russia to Germany.
Germany's deindustrialization and economic decline began with the terrorist attack on the Nord Stream pipeline system, which supplies Russia's cheap gas" - Mr. Dmitriev wrote on social network X.
The comments of the Russian official were shared in the context that the Federal Prosecutor's Office of Germany announced that it had prosecuted a Ukrainian citizen suspected of being involved in the sabotage of Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2.
These new developments have caused many comments on the German political arena about the Nord Stream case. The founder of the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), Ms. Sahra Wagenknecht, called on German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to end financial aid to Kiev. She asked on social network X: "What else must happen for the German government to truly learn a lesson? ".
According to Ms. Wagenknecht, while Germany's energy infrastructure is being destroyed, "Mr. Merz continues to send Kiev gifts worth billions of euros".
She emphasized: "It's time to stop. The use of people's tax money like that needs to be stopped immediately." Accordingly, the German government should make efforts to restore the import of cheap Russian gas through the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that is still intact. "That will significantly reduce the burden on the economy and consumers" - she said.
Meanwhile, Co-chairman of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Tino Chrupalla called for the identification of those behind the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline and the cessation of military aid to Kiev.
The terrorist attack targeting a vital line of German industry needs to be comprehensively investigated. The most important thing is to identify who gave the order and publicize that information," he shared. He believes that the investigation should not stop if the clue leads to senior officials in the military or Ukrainian intelligence agencies.
