On Monday, an Italian court approved the extradition of a 49-year-old Ukrainian man arrested near Rimini on August 21 and identified as Serhii K to Germany, where he faces charges including sabotage over the explosion that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines in September 2022. The attack, while it targeted the infrastructure linking Russia to Germany at a time when gas transit was already suspended, marked a point of no return. Seven months into the full invasion of Ukraine, it jolted the German economy into the painful realisation that it could no longer rely on cheap Russian fossil fuels to…

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