German Prosecutors Accuse Him of Participating in the 2022 Explosions That Damaged Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2.
On Wednesday, Croatian police arrested Ukrainian national Vladimir Z. in the city of Pula. He is another suspect in the sabotage of the Russian Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea in 2022.
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German Prosecutor General’s Office Accuse Ukraine Over Nord Stream Sabotage
Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office accuses the Ukrainian citizen of causing an explosion using explosive material, sabotage, and destruction of structures.
Vladimir Z. was the subject of a European arrest warrant issued by the investigating judge of the Supreme Court on June 3, 2024. The arrest warrant alleges that he was one of the divers who placed explosive devices on the Nord Stream pipelines in Sept. 2022, near the Danish island of Bornholm.
The German prosecutor’s office has not yet clarified whether the detainee is the same person who was arrested in Poland in the fall but whom a Warsaw court decided to release on the grounds that Germany had no jurisdiction.
Vladimir Z. was part of a group of people led by Sergei Kuznetsov, a former Ukrainian military member who was arrested in Italy a year ago and handed over to Germany, where he is being investigated separately.
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For transportation, Vladimir Z. and his accomplices used a sailboat that departed from the German port city of Rostock, on the Baltic Sea. The sailboat had previously been rented from a German company in Rostock through intermediaries, using falsified identity documents. The explosive devices detonated on Sept. 26, 2022, causing severe damage to both pipelines.
In June, Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office charged Kuznetsov before the Hamburg Regional Court with having participated as a co-perpetrator in a war crime consisting of an attack against civilian property, causing an explosion using explosive material, destroying structures and disrupting public services.
In 2022, the accused was an officer in the Ukrainian army. After the start of the Russian special military operation, Kuznetsov developed, “at the request of Ukrainian state agencies,” a plan to destroy the pipelines, which transported natural gas from Russia through the Baltic Sea to Lubmin, Germany.
According to the prosecutor’s office, the objective was to permanently interrupt the supply of gas through these pipelines and prevent Russia from using revenue from the sale of natural gas to finance its military operations.
To carry out the plan, a group was formed consisting of Vladimir Z. and other professional divers, a skipper, and an explosives expert, under Kuznetsov’s direction.
The alleged mastermind behind the attack on Nord Stream was former Ukrainian intelligence officer Roman Chervinski, who denies the allegations. The delicate operation allegedly had the approval of the then commander in chief of the Armed Forces, Valeri Zaluzhni, who also rejects the allegations.
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