Croatian court orders detention for Ukrainian Nord Stream sabotage suspect
A Croatian court ordered pretrial detention for Volodymyr Zhuravlyov, a Ukrainian national whom German authorities believe to be behind the 2022 Nord Stream gas pipeline sabotage, Croatian news outlet Index reported on Aug. 20.
Croatian authorities have ordered the pretrial detention of Volodymyr Zhuravlyov, a Ukrainian man suspected of involvement in the 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, as reported by Croatian news outlet Index on August 20. Zhuravlyov was apprehended on August 19 at the request of a state prosecutor, with the aim of securing his potential extradition to Germany under a European arrest warrant, according to his lawyer, Matija Milos.
Milos indicated that the judge's written decision will be appealed and that a judicial panel will subsequently determine if there are grounds for Zhuravlyov's extradition to Germany. This marks the third attempt to detain Zhuravlyov; in the summer of 2024, German investigators sought his arrest under the European warrant while he was residing in Poland, but he subsequently fled to Ukraine.
In late 2025, he returned to Warsaw and was detained by Polish authorities; however, his extradition to Germany was halted after a Polish court concluded that the pipelines were legitimate targets during an armed conflict. For more information, follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Google News.
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