Germany orders arrest of Ukrainians living in Poland over Nord Stream sabotage

Germany has issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian citizen living in Poland for his alleged involvement in the 2022 sabotage against the NordStream gas pipelinethat gas was transported from Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea, according to an investigation by the public television channel ARD, the newspaper South German Newspaper and the weekly magazine The Time.

According to this investigation, the person against whom the arrest warrant has been issued is a diving instructor, identified as “Vladimir S.”but the order has not been carried out by Poland, although Warsaw and Berlin are debating the future of the suspected subject.

Ukrainian authorship of sabotage

The investigation by these media outlets points to Ukrainian responsibility for the sabotage, which consisted of underwater explosions that took place September 26, 2022the gas line broke and caused gas leaks.

“Vladimir S.” and two other Ukrainian citizens, responsible for a diving school and identified as “Ewgen U.” and “his wife Svetlana”are the ones who, according to the investigation by these media, would be involved in the sabotage.

To “Vladimir S.” He is identified as one of the occupants of a white Citroën car registered by the German authorities near the German island of Rügen (north) in the night of September 8, 2022 and could have guided the people who used a yacht called Andromedawhere investigators found traces of explosives and who is suspected of having participated in the operation.

The suspicions of sabotage always planned for the explosions that took place in Nord Stream after this was revealed three leaks in the pipes of gas pipelines 1 and 2, which prompted the Danish and Swedish authorities to activate the energy emergency. Subsequent investigations have never established responsibility.