Ukrainian wanted over Nord Stream pipeline blasts arrested in Poland

The lawyer said he had been arrested by the police in Poland as a part of the investigation into the 2022 explosions that sabotage the Nord Stream Gas Pipe lines under the Baltic Sea.

Attorney Pap State news agency, just described as Volodymyr Z, the man was detained under the order of European arrest in a town near Warsaw in the early hours of Tuesday.

A few months before Russia’s full -scale invasion, three of the four Nord Stream Gas Pipe lines from Russia were broken by explosives.

The mystery explosions besieged and did not accept that no one ordered the attack. Ukrainian rejected participation; Russia was suspected of Western and accused Moscow the United States and Britain.

Although Moscow suspended materials through Nord Stream 1 pipelines, when leaders faced an energy crisis triggered by the Russian War, the explosions cut a key natural gas source for Europe and never started to operate.

German prosecutors investigating the attack He released his first arrest order in August 2024He said he was a diving instructor in Pruszkow in Southeast of Warsaw, who called the man Volodymyr Z at the time, but the authorities said he couldn’t find him.

However, he was not the first suspect in the case. Another Ukrainian citizen called Serhii K was taken by the Italian authorities in the province of Rimini last month.

Warsaw Regional Prosecutor’s Office Spokesman Piotr Antoni Skiba, Tuesday, BBC, Pruszkow’dan Volodymr Z, a suspect against a suspect began, he said.

“Currently, the European arrest warrant is being investigated because of the execution of the arrest order.” He said.

The man’s lawyer said he was detained early on Tuesday, and the Reuters news agency would challenge the return to Germany as it made the war order in Ukraine unacceptable.

The attack on the Nord Stream Infrastructure, “the attack on the Nord Stream Infrastructure, is related to Gazprom, one of the pipeline owners.

Meanwhile, the lawsuit against Serhii K is currently under the courts in Italy.

The refund to Germany, accused of playing a coordinated role in Nord Stream explosions, was cleared by a court in Bologna, and then his lawyer objected to deciding the highest appeal court in Italy.

Prosecutors believe that the suspects are part of a yacht called Andromeda from the German Rostock Port.

Serhii K said, “because it caused a common explosion and the sabotage that undermines the constitution”.

Although German reports have died since then, seven suspects have been identified in connection with Nord Flow explosions. Among the group were former members of a private diving school in Kiev.

Germany, Denmark and Sweden launched investigations into the incident, but Sweden and Denmark investigations closed in February without defining any suspect.

So far, there is no evidence that connects Ukraine, Russia or another state to attacks.