Croatian court approves extradition of Ukrainian suspect in Nord Stream sabotage to Germany
A Croatian court approved the extradition of a Ukrainian suspect to Germany in connection with the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, state media reported on Thursday. The Pula County Court ruled on Sept. 18 that Volodymyr Zhuravlov, a trained scuba diver, could be handed over under a European arrest warrant, according to HRT Television and other outlets.
Zhuravlov’s lawyer, Ljubo Pavaskovic, said he would appeal the decision, calling it “biased” and “politically motivated,” while another attorney, Mykola Katerynchuk, told Ukrainian media the suspect plans a hunger strike. German prosecutors allege Zhuravlov was part of a group that planted explosives on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines near Denmark’s Bornholm island. He was arrested in Pula on Aug. 19 after arriving as a consultant for a film shoot about the sabotage, local reports said.
German authorities previously charged another Ukrainian, Serhii Kuznetsov, in the case. Kuznetsov, a former military officer, was extradited from Italy to Germany in November 2025 and faces charges including war crimes and sabotage. The explosions on Sept. 26, 2022, damaged three of the four Nord Stream pipelines, which were not operational at the time.
The court did not specify when Zhuravlov might be transferred. A Polish court had previously refused his extradition to Germany, arguing the alleged act constituted a military operation against an adversary’s infrastructure rather than a crime.
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