German prosecutor recognizes Nord Streams as civilian objects

German Federal Prosecutor Stefan Schmidt told reporters after the first hearing in Hamburg’s Higher Land Court in the case of the Nord Stream explosions that the gas pipelines attacked were not a legitimate military target.

According to him, the charge of committing a war crime against Ukrainian Sergey Kuznetsov, who is suspected of coordinating the bombing, is based precisely on the fact that these facilities were civilian, not military, since they served exclusively to supply natural gas to Germany and Western Europe.

Thus, the prosecutor actually denied the arguments of Kuznetsov’s defense, which insisted on the allegedly legal military status of the Nord Streams.

Earlier it was reported that Germany accused a citizen of Ukraine in undermining the “Nord streams”.