By Giulio Piovaccari

MILAN (Reuters) -An Italian appeals court on Friday confirmed the arrest of a Ukrainian man suspected by Germany of coordinating attacks on three Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea in 2022, his lawyer said.

The 49-year-old man, whose full name was given in court but has been identified only as Serhii K. under German privacy laws, was arrested on Thursday near the Italian coastal town of Rimini under a European warrant.

The appeals court in Bologna, about 120 kilometres (75 miles) north-west of Rimini, said it would reconvene on Sept. 3 to consider his possible extradition to Germany, although a decision may not be made on that day, the lawyer said.

The man told the court he was a former soldier, the lawyer told Reuters by telephone.

He was filmed in handc

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