FILE PHOTO: Gas leak at Nord Stream 2 as seen from the Danish F-16 interceptor on Bornholm, Denmark September 27, 2022. Danish Defence Command/Forsvaret Ritzau Scanpix/via REUTERS/File Photo
MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Thursday that it was satisfied with the progress of a German investigation into attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea in 2022 after Italy arrested a suspect wanted in Germany.
An Italian appeals court earlier this month confirmed the arrest of the 49-year-old Ukrainian man suspected by Germany of coordinating the attacks which largely severed Russian gas supplies to Europe.
The suspect, identified only as Serhii K. under German privacy laws, may now be extradited to Germany where prosecutors say he was part of a group of people who planted devices on the pipelines near the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea.
"Of course, it is satisfying that this investigation is underway and we want to believe that it will be seen through to the end, and that not only the perpetrators but also those who ordered these terrorist acts will be named," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Gleb Stolyarov; Editing by Andrew Osborn)
