Rome: Italy’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, has temporarily halted the extradition of a Ukrainian man, identified as Serhii K., who is accused of coordinating the 2022 attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines. The decision came after Serhii K.’s defense challenged the legal basis of his transfer to Germany, arguing that the European Arrest Warrant contained an incorrect classification of the alleged crimes.

Serhii K. was arrested in August near Rimini, Italy, following a European warrant issued by Germany. The German authorities allege that he was part of a group responsible for planting explosive devices on the Nord Stream pipelines near the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The blasts, which occurred in September 2022, severely disrupted Russian gas supplies to Eur

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