Ukrainian man arrested in Croatia over Nord Stream blasts
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Ukrainian man arrested in Croatia over Nord Stream pipeline blasts
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Swedish Coast Guard
Image caption:
Three of the four Nord Stream pipelines were ruptured by explosions in September 2022
By Jake Lapham
Published 28 minutes ago
A Ukrainian man has been arrested in Croatia on suspicion of taking part in the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russia and Germany.
The suspect, alleged by German authorities to have been one of the scuba divers who planted explosives on the pipelines in September 2022, following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, is the second man to be arrested over the plot.
Prosecutors identified the man only as trained scuba diver Vladimir Z, however he is understood to be Volodymyr Zhuravlyov, who was arrested in Poland in 2025 over the undersea plot.
In that case, a Polish judge refused a German extradition request, arguing that if Ukraine was responsible for the attack, then it was a "just" act.
The other suspect in the case is former Ukrainian military officer Serhiy Kuznetsov, who was arrested in Italy in August 2025 and later extradited to Germany where he is set to face trial. He has denied responsibility for the explosions and appeared before a court in Hamburg in June.
Prosecutors allege Kuznetsov led a team that used a yacht rented at Rostock in Germany to plant explosives on the pipelines close to the Danish Baltic Sea island of Bornholm. Although the Nord Stream 1 pipeline was in operation at the time, Nord Stream 2 had yet to go into service.
