Escalation: Croatia detains Ukrainian suspect Vladimir Z
Croatian police detained a Ukrainian man in Pula on August 19 on a European arrest warrant from Germany. An investigative judge ordered him held pending extradition the next day. His lawyer, Matija Milos, will appeal the detention order.
He has been identified publicly as Vladimir Z., the same man Poland declined to extradite in 2025, when he was named as Volodymyr Zhuravlov. He is accused of being a trained scuba diver who took part in planting explosives on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines near Bornholm in September 2022.
The case links the operation to a yacht that departed Rostock, rented with forged IDs and intermediaries. Germany is seeking his extradition on suspicion of jointly causing explosions, anti-constitutional sabotage, and destruction of buildings and structures.
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