It was Ukraine that partially destroyed ‘Nord Stream 1 & 2’ by blowing them up. It appears that Ukrainian soldiers lied about their identity in the Baltic Sea and chartered a boat to blow up the ‘Nord Stream’. ‘Nord Stream 1 & 2’ were manufactured and installed with significant German investment. The Ukrainian sabotage of these gas pipelines made gas prices very high for German citizens. Russia's previous claims of Ukrainian theft of natural gas from the Russian-European gas pipeline being via Ukraine may well have been true.