A Ukrainian suspect, Volodymyr Zhuravlyov, a trained scuba diver, was detained on August 19 in the Croatian coastal city of Pula under a European arrest warrant. He is accused by German federal prosecutors of planting explosives on the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea. On September 26, 2022, a series of underwater detonations tore through three of the four Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines near the Danish island of Bornholm. Zhuravlyov had previously been detained in Poland in September 2025, but Polish courts rejected Germany’s extradition request citing jurisdictional issues. A Croatian court has ordered him held in pre-trial detention pending extradition to Germany, where another Ukrainian suspect, Serhiy K., was already extradited from Italy in late 2025.
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