Overview

• Polish authorities detained a Ukrainian man identified in reports as Volodymyr Z. near Warsaw under a German European arrest warrant alleging involvement in the 2022 blasts.
• Warsaw prosecutor’s office confirmed the detention, while defense lawyer Tymoteusz Paprocki said he will challenge any transfer to Germany.
• German investigators suspect the detainee, described as a diving instructor, took a yacht from Rostock and helped place explosives on the pipelines near Bornholm, according to media citing case files.
• The arrest follows Italy’s August detention of Serhii Kuznietsov, whom a lower court has ordered extradited to Germany over an alleged role chartering a yacht for the operation.
• Sweden and Denmark found the incidents were deliberate sabotage but closed their probes without naming suspects, as the blasts wrecked three of four Nord Stream lines and triggered major gas leaks.