Overview

• Polish authorities held Volodymyr Z. near Warsaw on a European arrest warrant from Germany and transferred him to the Warsaw district prosecutor, according to officials and RMF FM.
• His lawyer, Tymoteusz Paprocki, says he will contest extradition and argues the warrant is inadmissible given the war context and Gazprom’s ownership link; he maintains his client’s innocence.
• German federal prosecutors say the qualified diver is suspected of joining a team that rented a yacht in Rostock and planted explosives near Denmark’s Bornholm, with alleged offenses including conspiracy to cause an explosion and anticonstitutional sabotage.
• Italy previously detained a second Ukrainian suspect, Serhii K., with a court ordering his extradition to Germany; his appeal is pending after defense objections on due process and detention conditions.
• Sweden and Denmark closed separate probes after confirming deliberate blasts with explosive traces, while German investigators report identifying a Ukrainian cell of six suspects as they advance the cross‑border case.