Arrested in Croatia is a second suspect involved in the 2022 explosions on the Nord Stream pipelines. This is Volodymyr Zhuravlov, a Ukrainian citizen who, according to the German Federal Prosecutor’s Office, was arrested in the Croatian city of Pula under a European arrest warrant.
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The first suspect in the case, former Ukrainian army officer Serhij Kuznietsov, was indicted by German prosecutors in July on charges of organizing the explosions, acting on behalf of the Ukrainian state. The citizen was arrested in Italy in August 2025 and transferred to Germany in November and denied any involvement in the explosions. Kyiv authorities stated they do not have sufficient information to respond in detail to the German accusations.
According to prosecutors, Zhuravlov is a trained diver and was part of a group led by Kuznietsov that allegedly placed explosives against the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines. The man had already been arrested in Poland in 2025, where a court rejected the German extradition request and released him.
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The 2022 Nord Stream sabotage
The explosions in September 2022 occurred after Moscow’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine and damaged the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, a key route for Russian gas exports to Europe, and Nord Stream 2, which was not yet operational. At the time, Moscow had recently halted gas supplies through Nord Stream 1, attributing the decision to Western sanctions and technical problems, while Europe accused Russia of using energy supplies as a weapon. Russia and Western countries described the act as sabotage. The German prosecutors’ theory is that the alleged attack aimed to interrupt gas supplies through which Russia was helping to finance the ongoing war in Ukraine.
German courts have ruled that the case falls under their jurisdiction because the damaged pipelines end in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and their loss had consequences for Germany’s energy security and internal security.
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