The adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky - Mykhailo Podolyak, denied his country's involvement in the explosions that damaged the gas pipeline "Nord Stream 2", as for however, he pointed to Russia in his comments to Reuters today, BTA reported.
World agencies reported yesterday that the investigation into the explosions of the Russian gas pipelines “Nord Stream” in the Baltic Sea in 2022 is headed on a Ukrainian trail after it became clear that a German arrest warrant had been issued for a Ukrainian diver suspected, according to several media, of involvement in the sabotage along with two other Ukrainians.
"Such an action can only be carried out with extensive technical and financial resources [...] And who has all this at the time of the explosions? Only Russia", said Podolyak.
The investigation into the explosions of the Russian gas pipelines “Nord Stream” in the Baltic Sea in 2022 is heading on a Ukrainian trail after it became clear that a German arrest warrant had been issued for a Ukrainian diver suspected, according to several media outlets, of participating in the sabotage along with two other Ukrainians, France Press reported.
This latest development in the mysterious case, which has been under investigation for almost two years, was revealed yesterday by German media – the public television channel Aer De and the prestigious newspapers "Zeit" and "Süddeutsche Zeitung".
Polish prosecutors confirmed to AFP that in June they received a European arrest warrant issued by the German federal prosecutor's office for a Ukrainian man living in Poland at the time, identified as Volodymyr Z. Under European mutual legal assistance rules, Polish authorities had 60 days to respond to the German demand and arrest the suspect.
According to the German media, Ukrainian diving instructor Volodymyr Z. lived not far from Warsaw. He is suspected by German justice that, together with two other Ukrainian divers, represented by the German media as Evgen U. and Svetlana U., he participated in the sabotage of the gas pipeline in the depths of the Baltic Sea. The trio are believed to have transported the explosives to the scene aboard the sailing boat “Andromeda”, which German prosecutors revealed they had opened an investigation into in 2023. According to investigators, the boat left Rostock in Germany on the Baltic Sea before making a stopover on a Danish island before heading to Sweden and Poland.