The court rejected the petition to dismiss the Nord Stream attack case The defense petition of the former Ukrainian army officer Sergey Kuznetsov was rejected as unfounded, the Higher Regional Court in Hanseatic Hamburg ruled. The defense asked to stop the process, citing the fact that Kuznetsov served in a secret unit and could not reveal official secrets either in court or to lawyers under threat of imprisonment in Ukraine. "According to German law, the accused is not limited in his right to defense," the dpa agency quoted the judge as saying. The court also noted that the defendant's right to testify in Germany cannot be limited by the legislation of another country. This is how the trial of the 50-year-old defendant continued. According to the investigation, Kuznetsov led a group of saboteurs who, on September 26, 2022, near the Danish island of Bornholm, blew up pipelines laid from the Russian Federation to Germany along the seabed, damaging both branches of the Nord Stream gas pipeline and one of the Nord Stream 2 branches.

The court rejected the petition to dismiss the Nord Stream attack case The defense petition of the former Ukrainian army officer Sergey Kuznetsov was rejected as unfounded, the Higher Regional Court in Hanseatic Hamburg ruled. The defense asked to stop the process, citing the fact that Kuznetsov served in a secret unit and could not reveal official secrets either in court or to lawyers under threat of imprisonment in Ukraine. "According to German law, the accused is not limited in his right to defense," the dpa agency quoted the judge as saying. The court also noted that the defendant's right to testify in Germany cannot be limited by the legislation of another country. This is how the trial of the 50-year-old defendant continued. According to the investigation, Kuznetsov led a group of saboteurs who, on September 26, 2022, near the Danish island of Bornholm, blew up pipelines laid from the Russian Federation to Germany along the seabed, damaging both branches of the Nord Stream gas pipeline and one of the Nord Stream 2 branches.