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A Ukrainian citizen suspected by German authorities of involvement in the 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline fled Poland after a European arrest warrant was issued, the top Polish prosecutor said. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The National Public Prosecutor\u2019s office confirmed a\u00a0media report<\/a>\u00a0that it received the warrant from Germany in June and pursued the suspect, identified as Volodymyr Z., but that he had fled to Ukraine last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n The suspect \u201cwas not detained because at the beginning of July this year, he left Polish territory and crossed the Polish-Ukrainian border,\u201d a spokeswoman for the prosecutor, Anna Adamiak, wrote in an e-mailed response to a Bloomberg query. \u00a0<\/p>\n The suspect had been identified by Germany\u2019s Federal Prosecutor as a skilled diver suspected of being involved with the explosion that destroyed part of the natural-gas link between Russia and Germany, according to\u00a0an investigative report<\/a>\u00a0by the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, broadcaster ARD and Die Zeit weekly.\u00a0<\/p>\n Germany\u2019s federal prosecutor declined to comment. German government spokesman Wolfgang Buechner reiterated that the investigation into the Nord Stream attack is a priority, but declined to comment further.\u00a0<\/p>\n The German prosecutors identified a Ukrainian man and woman who are also believed to be part of a five-member crew suspected of launching the attack from a sailing vessel, the Andromeda, though no arrest warrant has been issued for them, according to the report.<\/p>\n After an investigation into the blasts, Danish authorities concluded in February that there was \u201cdeliberate sabotage of the gas pipelines,\u201d but found no \u201csufficient grounds to pursue a criminal case.\u201d<\/p>\n The undersea link to Germany via the Baltic Sea was the main route for Russian pipeline gas flows before the Kremlin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n The explosions damaged both channels of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline as well as one of two for Nord Stream 2 in the waters near the island of Bornholm in eastern Denmark. The blast demonstrated the vulnerability of seabed infrastructure and prompted an increased military presence in the Baltic Sea.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Polish prosecutor said German authorities failed to add the suspect\u2019s name to a database of wanted individuals, allowing Z. to cross the border unhindered. For their part, German investigators expressed frustration with a lack of cooperation from Polish counterparts, according to the report.\u00a0<\/p>\n A spokesman for Poland\u2019s security agencies under the Interior Ministry, Jacek Dobrzynski, described cooperation with German counterparts as \u201cvery good.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n