Nord Stream sabotage suspect wins reprieve in Italian court battle

ROME: A Ukrainian man suspected of coordinating the 2022 attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines will not be handed over to the German authorities for the moment after Italy’s top court on Wednesday upheld an appeal against his transfer, his lawyer said. The man, identified only as Serhii K. under German privacy laws, was arrested in August near the Italian town of Rimini on a European warrant over the explosions that crippled the pipelines in the Baltic Sea supplying Russian gas to Germany.