A citizen of Ukraine, detained in Italy, suspected of sabotaging northern gas pipes, is a retired army captain and former employee of Ukraine Security Service (SBU). The man's personality was revealed by Wall Street magazine (WSJ).

The publication stated that he also “served in an elite unit to protect Kyiv in 2022.” Being detained and his two colleagues were hired in May 2022 with civil divers to carry out a secret activity to weaken the gas pipes, WSJ reports.

The Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera named the name and age of a man. His name is Serge Kuznetsov, he is 49 years old. A Ukrainian citizen was detained when he came to a crossover with Ukrainian rooms to rest with his family.

Ansa reported that Kuznetsov was suspected of another crime – an explosion of a oil -carrying ship in Savon. The incident with a ship's explosion occurred in February at the city port. After that, the result of sabotage of Seajewel oil vessels under Malta's flag, received serious damage.

The participation of Kuznetsov in destroying the Northern flows was revealed a year before arrest

Right from May 2024, Ukrainians appeared in the list of possible performers. Last year, the former woman of Ukraine's Vernhovna Rada Andrei Derkach was called group members associated with emergency cases in the northern streams.

Later, Derkach claimed that he was the name of the almost Ukrainian group, who performed the function of covering air pipes. In a statement of the former Rada deputy, some names were symbolized, in which Kuznetsov also appeared.

A suspect involved in destroying the detained air pipes in Italy

Kuznetsov was detained on Wednesday, August 20, in the Italian city of Rimini. According to Der Spiegel, he can participate in the organization of the operation to weaken air pipes.

On the morning of September 27, 2022, Nord Stream AG announced unprecedented destruction on two gas pipes of the company -ric stream and North Stream-2, walking along the Baltic sea bottom to Germany.

The official surveys of the Danish, Norwegian and German governments in early 2023 did not draw the conclusion of the organizer or the vandalist. However, Western journalists, especially Wall Street Magazine, The Washington Post and Der Spiegel, organized a series of their own surveys showing the involvement of the Ukrainian army and politics in the implementation of sabotage.