Russia hopes German Nord Stream trial does not become farce — MFA

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The trial opened in Hamburg in October 2026 and is scheduled to conclude in June 2027

MOSCOW, November 13. /TASS/. Russia hopes the trial over the Nord Stream pipeline blasts, which opened in Hamburg in October, will not turn into another farce like the earlier investigations in Germany, Denmark and Sweden, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Dmitry Lyubinsky told TASS.

"We want to make it absolutely clear that Russia will continue to seek the truth so that the Nord Stream case is not ‘swept under the rug’ and those who conceived and ordered the largest terrorist attack of modern times do not, as the saying goes, get off the hook," the diplomat said.

Lyubinsky noted that Russia is following the trial of Ukrainian national Sergey Kuznetsov, which began in Hamburg in October. Kuznetsov is charged with blowing up the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipelines in 2022. "The trial is scheduled to conclude in June 2027. We would like to believe it will not turn into another farce, as the national investigations in Germany, Denmark and Sweden did," he added.

The deputy foreign minister recalled that the authorities in those countries had avoided cooperating with Russian law enforcement on the case "under various pretexts," while "disregarding, among other things, their obligations under international counterterrorism conventions." "Stories have been deliberately planted in Western media and continue to be planted to keep those who organized, ordered and oversaw this act of sabotage, which the German justice system classified as a war crime, from being identified and punished. The Financial Times recently weighed in, reporting that it was indeed Sergey Kuznetsov who carried out the bombings.

Lyubinsky also drew a parallel with Berlin’s response to the drone incident in Leipzig. "I would like to draw attention to one point here. Recall how quickly the German authorities categorically blamed Russia for the drone incident in Leipzig, within days and without any investigation or trial.

"We will see how the trial plays out, what results it produces and whether those who…

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