Nord Stream on Trial: war crime, or act of war?
Four years after the Nord Stream pipelines were blown up at the bottom of the Baltic, a former Ukrainian army officer, Serhii Kuznetsov, is on trial in Hamburg. German prosecutors say he led the team that did it, on orders from the Ukrainian state, and their main charge is a war crime: an attack on civilian objects. He denies it. His lawyers call the pipeline a Russian weapon.
We go out to sea on the rented yacht Andromeda, back to the pipeline Poland once compared to the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, and through the courts of Europe, which have answered the same case in opposite ways. Agata…
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