WARSAW: Poland confirmed on Wednesday (Aug 14) that it had obtained a German arrest warrant for a Ukrainian man who’s reportedly a suspect over the sabotage of the Nord Stream gasoline pipelines in 2022.
German media mentioned earlier that prosecutors had issued a warrant for a Ukrainian diver, named as Volodymyr Z, that they consider helped plant explosive units on the pipeline.
The Polish prosecutor’s workplace advised AFP it had obtained the warrant for the person in June “in reference to proceedings towards him in Germany”.
“Finally, Volodymyr Z was not detained, as he left the territory of Poland at the start of July this yr, crossing the Polish-Ukrainian border,” the prosecutor’s workplace mentioned in an e-mail.
4 giant gasoline leaks had been found on Nord Stream’s two pipelines off the Danish island of Bornholm on the finish of September 2022.
The pipelines had been on the centre of geopolitical tensions as Russia lower gasoline provides to Europe in suspected retaliation to Western sanctions over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Polish prosecutors mentioned the suspect left Poland as a result of the German justice whereas issuing the warrant, didn’t “embrace him within the database of needed individuals”.
“The Polish Border Guard had no data and no grounds for detaining Volodymyr Z,” the prosecutor’s workplace advised AFP.
For the reason that begin of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Poland has been one in every of Ukraine’s staunchest supporters.
