Overview

• Polish authorities detained Ukrainian national Wolodymyr Z., 46, at his address in Pruszkow near Warsaw on a European Arrest Warrant issued by Germany.
• Germany’s federal prosecutor says he is a trained diver suspected of joining the underwater operations to place charges on the Nord Stream pipelines in 2022.
• Prosecutors have filed charges including causing an explosives blast, anti-constitutional sabotage and destruction of structures, offenses that could carry up to 15 years in prison.
• Polish officials say the judiciary has up to 100 days to decide on his transfer to Germany, with initial detention and document translation steps already underway.
• The arrest follows Italy’s August detention of alleged coordinator Serhii K., whose extradition to Germany has been ordered, as investigators pursue a small Ukrainian group said to have used a yacht chartered from Rostock with falsified documents.