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AfD’s Weidel Demands Ukraine Pay Reparations Over Nord Stream “State Terrorist” Attack; Calls for End of Military and Financial Support

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AfD’s Weidel Demands Ukraine Pay Reparations Over Nord Stream “State Terrorist” Attack; Calls for End of Military and Financial Support

Professional woman with blonde hair and a confident expression, standing against a blue background.

Professional woman with blonde hair and a confident expression, standing against a blue background.
AfD Co-Leader Alice Weidel via Wikimedia Commons

Co-leader of Alternative for Germany (AfD)—the most popular party in Germany—Alice Weidel has demanded that Ukraine pay reparations to Germany over the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, escalating a political fight over German sovereignty, cheap energy, deindustrialization, and Berlin’s open-ended support for Kyiv.

Speaking at an AfD event on Tuesday, Weidel rejected Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s proposal to move Ukraine closer to the European Union through associate membership. She described Kyiv as a “bottomless pit” that has already drained enormous sums from German taxpayers.

“Germany has already transferred more than €100 billion to Ukraine over the past four years alone,” Weidel said.

Her remarks come as German investigators continue pursuing suspects in the September 2022 sabotage of Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2—the Baltic Sea pipelines built to carry Russian natural gas directly to Germany.

The blasts destroyed three of the four pipeline strands at a depth of roughly 80 meters. Nord Stream 1 had long delivered large volumes of cheap Russian gas to Germany, while Nord Stream 2 had been completed but never activated because of political tensions over Ukraine.

The sabotage, as many Germans see it, was not merely an attack on infrastructure, but an attack on Germany’s industrial future, energy independence, working class, and ability to remain economically sovereign.

Weidel said Ukraine must explain its role before Berlin considers further concessions, aid, or EU privileges, framing the pipeline destruction as a direct assault on Germany’s most important energy lifeline.

“We need to know how this state-terrorist act against the most important infrastructure we had, namely the Nord Stream pipelines, came about and what role Ukraine played in it,” she said.

German investigators have reportedly attributed the explosions to a small group of Ukrainian operatives. The alleged ringleader was extradited to Germany from Italy last autumn.

Separate reporting by German news outlets ARD, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Die Zeit said Federal Prosecutor General Jens Rommel obtained an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian suspect identified as Volodymyr Z., who was believed to have been living in Poland.

According to that reporting, two other Ukrainian nationals, including a woman, are also considered suspects. Investigators believe they may have been involved as divers who attached explosives to the pipelines.

The alleged operation reportedly involved a German sailing yacht called the “Andromeda.” Investigators have reconstructed much of the yacht’s September 2022 route through the Baltic Sea.

A white van photographed on Rügen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has also become important to the case. The vehicle is suspected of having transported diving equipment used in the operation.

According to reports, the van’s driver was allegedly assigned to transport several Ukrainians. He reportedly identified the wanted Ukrainian suspect in photos as one of the passengers.

German prosecutors allegedly sent a European arrest warrant to Polish authorities in June, hoping the suspect would be detained. But the suspect reportedly left Poland before an arrest took place.

The Polish Prosecutor General’s Office said he crossed the Polish-Ukrainian border because Germany had not entered him into the Schengen register as a wanted person. Without that listing, Polish border guards reportedly had neither the information nor the legal basis to detain him.

The suspect denied involvement in a brief phone call, according to reports. His current location remains unknown.

Moscow has repeatedly challenged Berlin’s account, arguing that an operation of such complexity in NATO-monitored waters could not plausibly have been carried out by a small group of divers without state backing. Those questions have kept the case politically explosive.

For the AfD and its growing support base, Germany’s critical energy infrastructure was blown up, German industry suffered, and Berlin still keeps sending money and weapons to the very country investigators now link to the alleged operation.

Weidel said the direction of payments should be reversed. “Ukraine must pay reparations to the Federal Republic of Germany, because we have suffered enormous damage—and so has Europe as a whole—from the loss of cheap Russian fossil fuels,” she said.

That demand strikes directly at Germany’s post-2022 economic crisis. Cheap Russian energy was a cornerstone of German industrial competitiveness, especially for chemical producers, steelmakers, manufacturers, and energy-intensive exporters.

Once that lifeline was severed, Germany was forced into a new era of higher energy costs, weaker competitiveness, and deepening pressure on its industrial base. Nord Stream’s destruction, for AfD and its supporters, then became the symbol of Berlin’s submission to foreign priorities at the expense of German workers.

Weidel also called for an immediate end to German military and financial aid to Ukraine. She urged Berlin to shift from escalation to negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow and to restore dialogue with Russia.

That position directly challenges the Merz government’s Ukraine policy. The government in Berlin has continued to argue that support for Kyiv is a moral and strategic obligation, while critics say the war has become a sinkhole for German money, weapons, and political credibility.

The issue, for the AfD, is not whether Germany should defend itself, but whether Germany should keep sacrificing its economy, energy security, and national interest for a war strategy that has no visible end.

Weidel’s stance reflects a widening anti-war mood among German voters. Many are increasingly skeptical of endless arms shipments, sanctions blowback, higher energy costs, and lectures from globalist political elites who rarely—if ever—pay the price of their own foreign-policy failures.

The AfD over the past years has become the main force challenging that consensus. According to recent opinion polls cited in the source material, the party is now Germany’s most popular political party.

An INSA survey published by Bild put AfD support at 29 percent. The same poll found 77 percent of respondents dissatisfied with Chancellor Merz’s performance—reportedly the worst rating of his tenure.

Those numbers show that the German public is no longer automatically accepting the establishment’s Ukraine line. The more Berlin sends abroad, the more voters ask what is being done for Germany itself.

Weidel’s message t is that Ukraine should not be rewarded with an EU path while Nord Stream questions remain unresolved, arguing that before Kyiv receives associate membership, Germany must know who destroyed its infrastructure and who ordered or enabled the attack.

The investigation remains one of Europe’s most sensitive political cases. Sweden and Denmark have already closed their probes, while Germany continues proceedings on suspicion of deliberately causing an explosion and anti-constitutional sabotage.

That alone raises uncomfortable questions. If the attack crippled European energy infrastructure, why has so much of Europe appeared eager to move on?

The answer, for the rising anti-globalist right in Germany and elsewhere across Europe and the world, is that Nord Stream exposes too many inconvenient truths about the war, energy dependence, NATO politics, and the willingness of European governments to sacrifice their own citizens for geopolitical narratives.

AfD supporters say Nord Stream represents the larger betrayal of modern Germany: cheap energy destroyed, factories weakened, taxpayers drained, and politicians still demanding more sacrifice.

Weidel’s demand for reparations is therefore a direct challenge to the entire post-2022 order, and asks directly why German citizens should continue paying Ukraine when Germany itself has suffered massive damage from an attack investigators have linked to Ukrainian suspects.

AfDs message is quite clear: stop the money, stop the weapons, restart diplomacy, and make those responsible for Nord Stream pay.

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