Stream Bombing

• A Ukrainian man has been arrested in connection with the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines. • The suspect was apprehended while working on the set of a Hollywood film starring Sean Penn, which ironically focuses on the pipeline attack. • This arrest marks a significant development in the ongoing investigation into the sabotage of the critical energy infrastructure.

• 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...

Berlin to seek suspect’s extradition for 2022 explosions that damaged gas pipelines to Russia A Ukrainian man has been arrested in Croatia as part of an investigation into the 2022 bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Germany and Russia.Undersea explosions in September 2022, just months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, damaged three of the four pipelines built to carry Russian fossil gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea. Continue reading...