Nord Stream Bombing: Arrest Warrant Made for ‘Volodymyr Z’

German authorities have thrown a new twist into the Nord Stream 2 pipeline bombing from two years ago.

They’ve just issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian national.

The suspect is known only as “Volodymyr Z”.

I wonder who that could be?

And according to German media, was living in Poland but made a quick exit back to Ukraine.

I’m sure there’s more than one Volodymyr Z. over in Ukraine.

But it does raise some eyebrows.

Germany issues arrest warrant for Ukrainian suspect ID’d as ‘Volodymyr Z’ in connection to Nord Stream pipeline explosion: reports https://t.co/VO9ISaU6o1 pic.twitter.com/vUkgY0m8wG

— New York Post (@nypost) August 15, 2024

New York Post reports:

German authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian national in connection to the explosion that damaged the Nord Stream 2 pipeline two years ago, resurrecting questions of Ukraine’s involvement in the incident.

The suspect, identified by German media only as “Volodymyr Z,” had lived in Poland at the time but fled to Ukraine before authorities could execute the arrest warrant in early July.

He had lived in the town of Pruszkow near Warsaw, Poland, according to the BBC.

Volodymyr Z allegedly participated in a six-man diving team of experienced Ukrainians who, in September 2022, rented a German yacht to sail over the Nord Stream pipeline and planted explosives that damaged a few of the pipelines.

The pipelines were condemned by the West as a national security threat.

They allowed Russia to sell gas more easily to Europe despite sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine.

The underwater detonations on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which were built to carry Russian natural gas to Germany, occurred in international waters but within Swedish and Danish economic zones.

Sweden earlier said that a state actor was the most likely culprit.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the plan took four months to enact and cost around $300,000.

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The group brought a female diver so that they could pose as a group going out on a pleasure cruise.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy originally supported the plan, but after the CIA learned of it and asked him to stop it, he tried to halt the effort.

The WSJ reported that Commander-in-Chief Valeriy Zaluzhniy ignored the order and pushed ahead with the plan.

Four senior Ukrainian defense and security officials told the outlet that the pipelines were viewed as a legitimate target in the war.

Zaluzhniy denied the claims, saying he had no knowledge of the operation and labeled such claims as “mere provocation.”

German intelligence officers raised concerns that, despite these reports, they believe it is entirely possible that this amounts to a Russian “false flag operation” that could cover up the country’s involvement in self-sabotage that helped justify their continued invasion of Ukraine, according to Politico, citing German publication Welt am Sonntag.

Some are pointing to flight data, saying that it was the US that was involved:

They're forgetting Ukraine needed that gas too.Why would he blow up his own gas line

— suzanne m bradford (@suzannembradfo1) August 15, 2024

Here’s Monkey Werx’s video regarding the flight data: