German prosecutors issued an arrest warrant earlier this summer in an investigation into the undersea explosions in 2022 that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russia and Germany, German media outlets have reported and a Polish government spokesperson has confirmed.
German public broadcaster ARD, the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung and the weekly Die Zeit said in a joint report Wednesday that federal prosecutors obtained an arrest warrant in June against a Ukrainian man believed to have resided until recently in Poland. The reports, which did not cite sources, identified the man as Volodymyr Z.
German government spokesperson Wolfgang Büchner declined to comment on the reported warrant Wednesday, referring questions to federal prosecutors. But he said that clearing up what happened has the “highest priority.”
Polish National Public Prosecutor’s Office spokesperson Anna Adamiak confirmed to Reuters that German authorities sent a European arrest warrant to the District Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw …