India, July 11 -- Ukraine's top prosecutor has explicitly denied any involvement by Kyiv in the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022, offering instead to form a joint investigation team with Germany to settle the intensifying legal friction between the two allies.

The statement from the Prosecutor General's office, carried via Reuters, represents Kyiv's most direct effort to counter growing assertions within German law enforcement that the sophisticated underwater operation was executed by elements tied to the Ukrainian state. The September 2022 explosions severely damaged the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea, permanently fracturing a critical corridor for Russian natural gas exports to Western Eur...