Warsaw, Poland (AP) – Ukrainian man suspected of being involved in causing a submarine explosion Node stream gas pipeline corrupted A spokesman for the Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office, who was arrested in Poland between Russia and Germany in 2022, said on Tuesday.
According to Polish radio station RMF FM, Voldimill Z. was detained in Pruskou, central Poland, and first reported his capture. He was transferred to a prosecutor in Warsaw.
The man whose full name has not been released due to privacy regulations has been detained on a European arrest warrant issued by German authorities, said Piotr Antoni Skiva, a spokesman for the Warsaw Prosecutor’s Office.
A spokesman for the federal prosecutor in Germany did not immediately return a request for comment Tuesday.
Another Ukrainian has been arrested Last month in Italy In connection with the explosion of a submarine pipeline built to transport Russian natural gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea.
“Considering the full-scale war in Ukraine and the fact that Nordstream is owned by Gazprom, a Russian company that funds these activities, the defense currently does not see any possible accusations against those who participated in these events.”
The lawyer said it was not clear whether his client was involved in the sabotage, and he was waiting for official information regarding the intent of the German judicial system in filing the charges. The defense will fight extradition, the lawyer said.
The undersea explosion on September 26, 2022 damaged a pipeline built to transport Russian natural gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea. Damage added to tension War in Ukraine Following the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, European countries began to withdraw from Russia’s energy sources.
According to RMF FM, German authorities say the man was a diving instructor and set sail on a yacht to the Baltic Sea in September 2022, where he kept the water and placed explosives in the underwater pipeline.
