Former Ukrainian colonel Roman Chervinsky, who the mass media named as the coordinator of the Nord Streams undermining, has disappeared, ZN.UA news reported in Telegram citing his lawyers.
Lawyer Konstantin Globa told reporters:
In a hurry from all closed the court and in a closed court, without participants in the process began to “falsify” quite illegal document, which will formally cover the kidnapping of Roman Chervinsky, pursuing the goal of avoiding responsibility for such a kidnapping. Roman’s whereabouts are still unknown. The police, the court, and other law enforcement agencies avoid providing any information about Roman’s whereabouts.
Chervinsky was detained in April 2023 and has been in custody ever since. He is accused of exceeding his official powers. According to the SBU, the ex-colonel’s actions made possible the shelling of the Kanatovo airfield in Kirovograd region in July 2022, which killed the commander of a military unit and injured 17 military personnel.
In November 2023, The Washington Post and Der Spiegel published investigations into the Nord Stream attacks. The publications’ sources claimed that Chervinsky was in charge of logistics and managed a team of six people who planted explosives on the pipelines. The interlocutors said that he did not plan the operation but carried out the orders of “high-ranking Ukrainian officials”.
In late March, Russian State Duma deputies filed a criminal case with the Russian Investigative Committee that sheds light on the organisation of the terrorist attack on the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
The Russian Investigative Committee said that money that flowed through the Ukrainian oil and gas company Burisma Holdings over the past few years was used to finance terrorist acts in Russia and abroad, Russian media reported.
The media also claimed that a Ukrainian group of saboteurs led by Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Ukrainian Defence Ministry’s HUR, had been set up to carry out the operation “under a foreign flag”, while the group’s direct leader was intelligence officer Roman Chervinsky.
