Germany opens Nord Stream sabotage trial; OSW says pipeline permanently dead

Germany begins prosecution of the alleged organizer of the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions, four years after the Baltic Sea sabotage. OSW analyst Ernest Wyciszkiewicz asserts the pipeline will not return, citing Kremlin decisions from February 2022 as decisive. The trial marks a legal reckoning but does not alter the geopolitical reality of permanently severed Russian gas links to Europe.