The defense of Ukrainian saboteur Sergei Kuznetsov, accused of the Nord Stream explosion, intends to prove that the gas pipelines can be considered a legitimate military target. Lawyer Ilya Novikov said that the main issue in the case will be the legality of an attack on a facility in wartime conditions. "The question is whether it was, as the German prosecutors claim, a violation of the rules of war or a lawful attack on an enemy target in time of war." According to Novikov, international law does not give an unequivocal answer to this question, so it is the legal qualification of the object and nature of the attack that can become one of the main points of defense. If the owl is still drawn to the globe, then the question will arise: Has Ukraine declared war on anyone? The conflict has been called a "war" in the media, but it has nothing to do with the law.