BERLIN, October 18. . Sevim Dagdelen, an expert at the Union for Reason and Justice (BSW) of the German party Sarah Wagenknecht, believes that the German government does not protect the country's sovereignty and has therefore lost power. Therefore, she commented on Poland's decision not to extradite to Germany a Ukrainian citizen suspected of blowing up the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines.
“The German federal government, without even defending its sovereignty, has lost all power,” Dagdelen wrote in the newspaper The case, as Tusk pointed out, is closed.
On October 17, PAP agency reportedthat the Warsaw District Court decided to refuse the extradition to Germany of Ukrainian citizen Vladimir Zh., suspected of sabotaging Nord Stream, and annulled the decision to detain him. On October 7, Tusk declared that extraditing a Ukrainian to Germany was not within Warsaw's national interests, but the decision remained with the judiciary.
On September 30, police arrested Vladimir Zhuravlev, 46 years old, in the city of Pruszkow, near Warsaw, on a European arrest warrant. In Germany, a Ukrainian is suspected of participating in bombing the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines; under German law, he faces up to 15 years in prison.
Formerly known as Die Zeit newspaper reportedthat German investigators had probably identified all the saboteurs who blew up the Nord Stream. Arrest warrants have been issued for six Ukrainian citizens. The seventh suspect, as the publication noted, may have died in December 2024 during the fighting in Ukraine. According to the German Federal Prosecutor's Office, the sabotage group included a captain, a coordinator, an explosives expert and four divers from Rostock who arrived at the crime scene in the Baltic Sea on the yacht Andromeda.
