Meet Ilya Novikov, the Russian-born lawyer and sharp Zelensky critic helping to defend the Ukrainian man accused of bombing the Nord Stream pipeline

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• 01Smoke over Kyiv after the attack, June 15, 2026 ‘It was a crime to build and operate it in the first place’ As a lawyer, you’re defending Ukrainian citizen Serhii Kuznetsov in the Nord Stream bombing case.
• 02Meet Ilya Novikov, the Russian-born lawyer and sharp Zelensky critic helping to defend the Ukrainian man accused of bombing the Nord Stream pipeline.
• 03Defense attorney Ilya Novikov moved from Russia to Ukraine in 2019.
• 04Now, as a Ukrainian lawyer, Novikov is defending Serhii Kuznetsov, a Ukrainian citizen who was detained in connection with the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines and later extradited to Germany.
• 05In the notorious Mala Tokmachka , what’s being decided right now isn’t who gets Mala Tokmachka.
• 06In May, Kuznetsov’s initial detention term expired — six months in custody in Germany.
• 07Because if, thanks to our allies’ help, we hold out longer than Putin and the Russian army, there’s a chance it will set off a far-reaching chain reaction.