Trial begins in Hamburg for Nord Stream sabotage suspect

The criminal trial of Ukrainian citizen Serhii Kuznieţov, accused of involvement in the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, opens at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg. Ukraine denies orchestrating the attack. The proceedings mark the first judicial examination of an act that severed a key Russia-Germany gas link, with implications for European energy security and geopolitical accountability.