The latest news in the Nord Stream case says that the Ukrainian court allowed guarantees for senior military officers suspected of directly participating in the sabotage of the Baltic gas pipeline.
Earlier this week, Ukraine's Katerynchuk, Moor & Partners law Firms informed that the appellate court in the Kirovohrad region had granted a guarantee of 9 million hryvnya ($218,000) to former Special Forces Colonel Roman Chervinskiy.
Chervinskiy was described by the Washington Post in November last year as a suspect who played a coordinating role in the attacks on the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines in 2022.
Nord Stream sabotage suspect Roman Chervinskiy was arrested last April on charges of abusing power.
According to the investigation, the allegations are related to a failed robbery of a Russian plane, leading to a Russian missile attack on Kanatove airport in the Kirovohrad region in July 2022, which killed 1 Ukrainian soldier and injured 17 others.
In November last year, in an article about the Nord Stream incident, the Washington Post described Roman Chervinskiy as a senior officer in the Ukrainian army with deep ties to the countrys intelligence agencies.
The Washington Post said the man played a central role and was coordinating the attacks on the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines.
According to the report, Roman Chervinskiy "received orders from senior Ukrainian officials who last reported to General Valeriy Zaluzhniy," the highest-ranking Ukrainian official at the time.
Ukrainian and European officials as well as other people with knowledge of the details of covert operations have provided the Washington Post with information in the Nord Stream report and prime suspect Roman Chervinskiy.
Through a lawyer, Roman Chervinskiy has denied allegations related to sabotage activities on the gas pipeline connecting Russia and Germany running under the Baltic Sea.
The explosives were planted and detonated on the Nord Stream artery gas pipeline in September 2022, causing a large leak of gas. The Nord Stream system attack is seen as a dangerous attack on European infrastructure half a year after the Russia-Ukraine conflict broke out.
Nord Stream is majority owned by Russian company Gazprom and has supplied Russian gas to millions of Europeans. The pipeline is seen as a major effort by Russia to bypass Ukraine in the process of transporting Russian gas west to the EU market.
For years, the US has warned that the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipelines are a security risk to Germany and other European countries, causing them to depend on Russian energy exports.
