
(ANSA) - BELGRADE, AUG 19 - A Ukrainian man was arrested Wednesday in Croatia on suspicion of taking part in the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines running between Russia and Germany in 2022, German prosecutors said. The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office said the suspect, Volodymyr Zhuravlyov, a trained scuba diver, was arrested in Pula, Croatia, and was "strongly suspected of jointly causing explosions". The man, whom the office itself only partially named in its statement, was detained on a European arrest warrant and Germany was seeking his extradition. The Baltic Sea attack came months after Moscow's February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine and destroyed three of four seafloor pipelines of the major energy link. (ANSA).