German Prosecutors Say a Second Nord Stream Sabotage Suspect Was Arrested in Croatia – Volodymyr Zhuravlyov Reportedly Detained While Making a Hollywood Film About the Explosions
Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, and a Ukrainian saboteur: an explosive recipe?
We’ve been reporting here on TGP from day one on the explosions that destroyed the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which occurred in 2022.
At first, MSM tried to convince the world that the mean Russians had sabotaged their own pipelines – but that didn’t stick.
Later, Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh, based on his unnamed sources, wrote that the explosions were an op run by the CIA.
But German police and prosecutors laboriously worked over four years on an investigation, and have arrived at the conclusion that a team of Ukrainians, ‘under state orders’, was guilty of the attacks.
The leader of this team, Serhii Kuznetzov, has been charged with a war crime under international law: attacking civilian energy infrastructure, as well as causing an explosion, destroying structures/infrastructure.
Yesterday (19), German prosecutors announced that a second Ukrainian suspect of the Nord Stream pipeline blasts was arrested in Croatia, and will be extradited to Germany.
Some outlets are following the German rules and calling the suspect Volodymyr Z., but many others have identified the man as Volodymyr Zhuravlyov.
Reuters reported:
“Germany’s federal prosecutors’ office identified the second Ukrainian national only as Vladimir Z. in a statement, adding that he was arrested in the Croatian city of Pula by local police forces who acted on a European arrest warrant.
The prosecutors said [Volodymyr Zhuravlyov] was a trained scuba diver who was part of a group led by Serhii [Kuznetzov] that planted explosives targeting the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines.”
Zhuravlyov was first arrested in Poland, but the government of Liberal Donald Tusk refused to extradite him to Germany – so they set him free, and he promptly vanished.
Today the Polish PM repeated his idiotic take that the saboteurs are actually ‘heroes’.
TVP World reported:
“Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said Germany should not prosecute suspects accused of blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, adding those who built the Russian gas links ‘should be ashamed, not those who disabled them’.
Asked on Thursday whether he still believed the suspect should not face criminal liability, Tusk said he had not changed his position.
[…] ‘But Germany should certainly not prosecute those who, in a situation where their country has been attacked, take one action or another. I will not change my mind here, and I believe that those who built this pipeline should be ashamed, not those who disabled it’.”
And apparently, not only Tusk thinks that the man who committed the greatest act of sabotage since WW2 (a war crime) is heroic: Zhuravlyov was reportedly detained while working on a Hollywood movie about the gas pipeline attack starring Adrien Brody and Sean Penn.
AFP reported:
“Germany’s Legal Tribune Online reported he was arrested while working on the set for the movie ‘Snake Island’ by US director Doug Liman (“Bourne Identity”), with Brody and three-time Oscar winner Penn.
Zhuravlyov worked as an advisor for the film, according to media reports AFP was unable to immediately verify with German or Croatian authorities.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/german-prosecutors-say-second-nord-stream-sabotage-suspect/