❓WHAT HAPPENED: A Ukrainian has been detained in Poland over the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: The suspect, identified as Volodymyr Z., was detained following a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) issued by a German court. His Polish lawyer, Tymoteusz Paprocki, has commented on the case.
📍WHEN & WHERE: The detention occurred in Poland on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, following the 2022 explosions that damaged the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea.
💬KEY QUOTE: “The defense currently does not see any possibility of bringing charges against anyone who participated in these activities.” – Tymoteusz Paprocki
🎯IMPACT: The explosions severely damaged energy supply supplies to the European Union (EU), forcing the bloc to seek alternative, more expensive sources.
Poland has detained a Ukrainian man, identified as Volodymyr Z., over alleged involvement in the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions. The arrest followed a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) issued by a German court, as reported by The National Pulse in August last year.
Volodymyr, reportedly a diving instructor, was detained on Tuesday. His Polish lawyer, Tymoteusz Paprocki, insisted that there were no grounds to extradite his client to Germany. Paprocki added, “In general, considering the full-scale war in Ukraine and the fact that Nord Stream is owned by the Russian company Gazprom, which finances these activities, the defence currently does not see any possibility of bringing charges against anyone who participated in these activities.”
The September 2022 explosions largely destroyed the undersea pipelines designed to deliver gas to the European Union (EU) direct from Russia, rather than via Ukraine. Their destruction, which Western governments nonsensically blamed on Russia at first, forced EU governments to seek alternative, more expensive energy sources.
In August 2025, Italian authorities arrested another Ukrainian man, identified as Serhii K., who was suspected of coordinating attacks on the pipelines. German prosecutors alleged that Serhii and a group planted explosive devices near the Danish island of Bornholm, departing from Rostock, Germany, in a sailing yacht. He faced charges of collusion to cause an explosion, anti-constitutional sabotage, and destruction of critical infrastructure.
The explosions caused an estimated 800 million cubic metres of gas to escape. The pipelines were designed to deliver up to 110 billion cubic metres of gas annually to Germany.
Denmark and Sweden concluded the explosions were acts of sabotage but closed their investigations in February without identifying suspects.
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