Italian police have arrested a Ukrainian national who German investigators believe coordinated the undersea bombing in 2022 of two gas pipelines that directly linked Russia to Germany, the German authorities said on Thursday.
It was the first arrest in the act of sabotage that occurred as the war in Ukraine raged, a technically sophisticated attack that had initially stumped investigators and led to much speculation about who had carried it out. Western investigators and intelligence officials later concluded that the attack was carried out by a pro-Ukrainian group.
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Source: The New York Times
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