Overview

• Italy’s Supreme Cassation Court annulled the order to extradite Ukrainian citizen Sergey Kuznetsov to Germany and directed a new hearing before a different panel.
• Defense attorney Nicola Canestrini says he will seek Kuznetsov’s release, arguing legal errors in the European arrest warrant and citing due‑process concerns.
• Kuznetsov was arrested in Rimini on August 21 after a German warrant; German prosecutors have charged him with coordinating a team alleged to have planted explosives in September 2022.
• In Poland, the Warsaw District Court scheduled the extradition hearing for Ukrainian citizen Vladimir Zhuravlev, who was first detained for seven days and then held for an additional 40 days.
• Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated the government opposes handing Zhuravlev to Germany, and a Sejm commission meeting was disrupted during disputes tied to blocking his extradition.