Financial Times: Ukrainian “state authorities” ordered the spectacular bombing of Russia’s Nord Stream gas pipelines, a court in Hamburg heard on Wednesday, as prosecutors opened a long-awaited trial against the alleged ringleader of the plot.
German prosecutors claim Serhii Kuznietsov, a former Ukrainian intelligence officer and army captain, led a state-backed team responsible for one of the most daring acts of sabotage in Europe since the second world war: the huge explosions in September 2022 that blew up three of the four Nord Stream 1 and 2 undersea gas pipelines…