"HAMBURG. One of the main suspects in the attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea may have escaped with the help of the Polish authorities. This is suggested by recent publications by the magazine "Spiegel" and ZDF.
According to them, Ukrainian citizen Volodymyr S., wanted by the German authorities on a European arrest warrant, drove across the border into Ukraine in July 2024 in a vehicle from the Ukrainian embassy in Warsaw with diplomatic license plates. When asked how this could have happened, Polish officials replied to the German security authorities: "Why should we arrest him? For us, he is a hero!" Polish authorities had apparently warned the Ukrainian side of the impending arrest, according to "Spiegel".
In August 2024, the German Federal Prosecutor General obtained an arrest warrant for Volodymyr S., who was said to have been in Poland. The air conditioning technician and diving instructor is considered one of the main suspects in the attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines in September 2022. These were intended to export Russian gas to Germany. Poland and Ukraine had campaigned in vain for years against the plans and expansion (Nord Stream 2). Responsibility for the explosions remains unclear. Swedish and Danish authorities have closed their investigations, and in Germany the Federal Prosecutor General is still investigating.
The investigation is focusing on a group of Ukrainians who are said to have set off from Rostock by sailboat. The "Wall Street Journal" recently reported that a group of Ukrainian military personnel and entrepreneurs had made a plan to blow up the pipelines in early 2022. The plan was led by the then commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, Valery Zalushny. The operation, which was carried out by sailing yacht, only cost around $300,000. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is said to have initially approved the plan. However, after the CIA learned of it and asked Ukraine not to implement the plan, Zelensky is said to have ordered the operation to be stopped. Kiev had rejected the allegations. Der Spiegel now writes that Zelensky learned of the plans from the CIA in the summer of 2022 at the latest. Nevertheless, Commander-in-Chief Zalushny did not call off the plan; the saboteurs set off for Poland, equipped with false Bulgarian and Romanian documents.
The attack is said to have been organized by former Ukrainian secret service agent Roman Chervinsky. In a recent interview with the FAZ, Chervinsky did not say anything about the details of the operation. But he made no secret of the fact that he thought it was a good idea. "I think the result of this operation is positive," said Chervinsky during a visit to his hometown. "It was a good thing for the entire civilized world." Chervinsky told "Spiegel" that the explosion was a legitimate act in a conflict.
The operation is said to have been carried out using the Andromeda sailing yacht, which is only 15.5 meters long and on which investigators found traces of explosives. The small size of the yacht, combined with the sea conditions and the presumably large explosive charges that were needed for the explosions, some of which were 80 meters deep, have repeatedly raised doubts about the investigators' suspicions. "Spiegel" now quotes those involved as saying that special explosives were used for the operation that were not manufactured in Ukraine. Where they came from remains unclear.
The divers used compressed air bottles as a type of pipe bomb, into which special underwater explosives were filled, among other things. A remote lake in Ukraine served as a "test laboratory." Ukrainian amateur divers were also approached to carry out the operation. All of them participated voluntarily." [1]
1. Half Polen bei der Flucht?: Berichten zufolge floh ein Verdächtiger im Fall der Nord-Stream-Sprengung im Diplomatenfahrzeug. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; Frankfurt. 21 Nov 2024: 5.
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