North Stream Attack Initiated Germany's Economic Decline

Kirill Dmitriev, the Special Representative of the Russian President for Foreign Economic Relations, made harsh statements about the current state of the German economy on social media. Dmitriev stated that Germany's deindustrialization and economic collapse began with the terrorist attack on the Nord Stream gas infrastructure, which transported cheap Russian gas.The German Federal Prosecutor's Office had previously indicted Ukrainian citizen Sergey K. in connection with the attack on the Nord Stream pipeline. The German prosecutor's office stated that the suspect and his accomplices acted on the instructions of Ukrainian government agencies.The two major export pipelines, Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2, which transport natural gas from Russia to Europe, were targeted in explosions on September 26, 2022.The operator of the pipelines, Nord Stream AG, announced that the damage to the pipelines was unprecedented and that it was impossible to estimate the time required for repairs.