Consultant

• Volodymyr Zhuravlev, a chief suspect in the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline bombings, has been arrested after previously evading German authorities. • Zhuravlev allegedly served as a consultant for "Snake Island," a dramatized film starring Sean Penn that reconstructs events related to the conflict. • The case involves a team of Ukrainian divers accused of destroying the pipelines that supplied Russian natural gas to Germany.

Volodymyr Zhuravlev had been consulted on Snake Island, a dramatised reconstruction of incidentEarlier this month locals in Zagreb noticed something odd outside an art deco building. Sandbags and barricades appeared in front of the Esplanade hotel, along with a film crew and extras sporting Ukrainian military uniforms. Soon afterwards the actors Sean Penn and Adrien Brody were spotted on the set in the Croatian capital, together with Doug Liman, the Hollywood director of the Jason Bourne movies.Liman had come to shoot his latest fictional political thriller. Its subject: the 2022 Nord Stream explosions, in which a team of Ukrainian divers allegedly blew up a pipeline supplying Russian oil to Germany. One of the chief suspects, Volodymyr Zhuravlev, had twice eluded the Germany authorities: once allegedly slipping out of Poland in the boot of a diplomatic car, and on another occasion freed by a court. Continue reading...

• NGOs, including Transparency International EU and the Corporate Europe Observatory, are challenging the European Commission's selection of Guidehouse to design the rules for its hydrogen bank subsidy scheme. • The controversy centers on whether Guidehouse maintains inappropriately close ties to the fossil fuel industry, potentially compromising the bidding and evaluation processes for qualifying projects. • This matter is critical as it raises concerns regarding transparency and potential conflicts of interest in how EU subsidies are allocated to energy companies.