Croatia set to extradite Ukrainian diver suspected in Nord Stream bombing to Germany
A Croatian court has approved the extradition to Germany of Ukrainian citizen Volodymyr Zhuravlyov, who is wanted there over his alleged role in the 2022 Nord Stream sabotage. The suspect's lawyer has three days to appeal the decision.
The professional diver was arrested on the Croatian Adriatic coast on August 18 under a German European arrest warrant. According to authorities, he was using a false identity and posing as a member of a film crew. That crew happened to be shooting a film called Snake Island about the Nord Stream bombing, on a stretch of coastline where the conditions of the operation carried out in the Baltic Sea could be reconstructed. Zhuravlyov was also arrested in Poland in September 2025 under the same German warrant, but a Polish judge rejected his extradition at the time and ordered his release. According to the German federal prosecutor's office, Zhuravlyov was a member of the unit led by Serhii Kuznietsov, a former Ukrainian military officer. Kuznietsov has already been extradited to Germany by Italy, and his trial is set to begin in Hamburg on October 14. German investigators have identified a total of five men and one woman as participants in the sabotage operation.
The Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines running along the bottom of the Baltic Sea were damaged on September 26, 2022, near the Danish island of Bornholm. The pipelines carried natural gas from Russia to Europe; Nord Stream 2 had been completed by that time but had not yet been put into commercial operation. Germany, Sweden and Denmark each launched separate investigations into the incident. The two Scandinavian countries closed their investigations in 2024, but German authorities continued their inquiry and now believe the operation was carried out by a Ukrainian group. Kyiv denies that the Ukrainian state organized the bombing.
Source: G4Media
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