Sky News reports:

The Ukrainian suspected of coordinating attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines had served in Ukraine's Secret Service and in the Ukrainian Army's special forces, Sky News understands. 

The 49-year-old man named Serhii K was arrested yesterday in northern Italy following a European arrest warrant by German prosecutors. 

He's not been found guilty yet so it's early days, but the old Russophobic MSM narrative around the blowing up of the Nordstream pipelines is starting to fall apart Jenga style.

At the time of the explosion, the media pushed the blatant absurdity that Russia had sabotaged its own pipeline in a further attempt to 'weaponise' energy it was contracted to supply to Europe.

The fact that Russia could have done this by simply turning a switch at their end of the pipeline rather than blowing up an asset that it and its European partners had invested billions in, seemed to have been lost on the breathless MSM.

21stcenturywire.com has a different take:

[https://21stcenturywire.com/2025/08/22/germany-reboots-ukrainian-nord-stream-red-herring-plot/]

While the story seems to perfectly fit the narrative pushed by the German investigation, it is important to realise that there is more than meets the eye, and much evidence that suggests that this entire German ‘Vaudeville’ is nothing more than an attempt to pin the blame on Ukrainian patsies, to protect the identies of the true Nord Stream’s saboteurs.

But whoever was behind this attack, the question now is who is going to pay for the damage to this vital civilian infrastructure located in the Baltic sea and miles from Ukraine?

And does anybody care?