Lawyer Ilya Novikov - on the testimony of a witness in the Nord Stream attack case The trial of the former Ukrainian special forces officer, Sergei Kuznetsov, who is accused of a war crime - attack on a civilian object, continues in Hamburg. Lawyer Ilya Novikov, in a comment to the Echo reporter, stated that he considers the testimony of a witness from the Federal Network Agency, who spoke in the morning, important for the defense. According to Groner, from September 2, 2022, the gas completely stopped flowing in the gas pipeline, and at the initiative of the Russian side. The judge asked the witness several times to answer directly how the explosions affected the safety of the gas supply. Gruner replied that without them, the import of pipelines would have been "at least possible", but only from a technical point of view: he could not judge the political circumstances. The "threatening situation", according to him, existed even before the explosions, and the sabotage "was an end" to this trend and made it possible to return to the previous situation. However, he noted that if the winter of 2022-23 was colder, this could adversely affect Germany's gas supply. The witness called the connection between the explosions and fuel prices "not that strong". The claim that no more gas was flowing in the pipeline at the time of the explosion was previously raised by the defense. She is appealing the war crime charge: according to her lawyers, the gas pipelines were not civilian supply facilities.

Lawyer Ilya Novikov - on the testimony of a witness in the Nord Stream attack case The trial of the former Ukrainian special forces officer, Sergei Kuznetsov, who is accused of a war crime - attack on a civilian object, continues in Hamburg. Lawyer Ilya Novikov, in a comment to the Echo reporter, stated that he considers the testimony of a witness from the Federal Network Agency, who spoke in the morning, important for the defense. According to Groner, from September 2, 2022, the gas completely stopped flowing in the gas pipeline, and at the initiative of the Russian side. The judge asked the witness several times to answer directly how the explosions affected the safety of the gas supply. Gruner replied that without them, the import of pipelines would have been "at least possible", but only from a technical point of view: he could not judge the political circumstances. The "threatening situation", according to him, existed even before the explosions, and the sabotage "was an end" to this trend and made it possible to return to the previous situation. However, he noted that if the winter of 2022-23 was colder, this could adversely affect Germany's gas supply. The witness called the connection between the explosions and fuel prices "not that strong". The claim that no more gas was flowing in the pipeline at the time of the explosion was previously raised by the defense. She is appealing the war crime charge: according to her lawyers, the gas pipelines were not civilian supply facilities.