Sarah Rainford

wrote Eastern and Southern Europe

Sirhi Kay looked relaxed and calm as she arrived at a luxurious resort near Italy's Adriatic coast with her husband and young children.

The former Ukrainian special forces soldier walked around in shorts, sandals and a dark baseball cap, talking to the receptionist and grabbing something from the free snack tray several times.

But the German police tightened the siege ring around him at that time.

After a long and difficult investigation, the agents came to the conclusion that Serhei K was the commander of the largest sabotage operation in Europe in the last decades; A series of explosions in September 2022 in the depths of the Baltic Sea that ruptured the huge Nord Stream lines and cut off the flow of Russian gas to Germany.