{
  "id": 1912183,
  "title": "Bundesanwaltschaft: Nord-Stream-Anschläge: Verdächtiger in Kroatien festgenommen",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/bundesanwaltschaft-nord-stream-anschlage-verdachtiger-in-kroatien",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-19T09:52:38.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/bundesanwaltschaft-nord-stream-anschlaege-verdaechtiger-in-kroatien-festgenommen/100248294.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "Four years after the attacks on the Nord-Stream pipelines, a second suspect has been arrested by the German Federal Prosecution Service. In Karlsruhe, they detained Ukrainian Wolodymyr Z., apprehending him from Croatian officials, according to the Karlsruhe office. They accuse him of jointly orchestrating a bomb explosion. The arrested individual is the same man who was previously apprehended in Poland in November 2025. The Polish judiciary denied the German extradition request at that time, releasing the Ukrainian. He is alleged to have been involved in the underwater surveys in the Baltic Sea where the charges were placed on the gas lines. Together with his accomplices, he used a sailing yacht which had started from Rostock for transportation. Using falsified identity papers, they allegedly rented this yacht through intermediaries to a German company. Charges are pending against suspected accomplices in Hamburg. Multiple explosions near the Danish Baltic Sea island of Bornholm had severely damaged the Nord-Stream pipelines in September 2022, ceasing gas flow. Before Nord Stream 1, Russian natural gas was transported to Germany via Nord Stream 2, which was not yet operational. To date, no one has been held accountable for the attacks. At the end of August 2025, the alleged mastermind of the operation, Serhij K., was apprehended along the Adriatic coast, on holiday with his family. Based on a European Arrest Warrant, the Federal Prosecution Service has filed charges against him at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg.",
  "summary": "Die Ermittlungen rund um die Sprengungen der Nord-Stream-Pipelines führen erneut zu einer Festnahme. Es ist nicht das erste Mal, dass der Ukrainer den Ermittlern ins Netz geht.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}