The person was once recognized as Volodymyr Zhuravlov by means of the Swedish newspaper Expressen — a part of the reporting consortium protecting the tale.
The subsea explosions in September 2022 took out 3 of the 4 Nord Circulate 1 and a couple of pipelines transporting fuel from Russia to Germany and despatched geopolitical shockwaves around the globe. There are proceeding unanswered questions about who was once accountable and palms pointed variously at Russia, Ukraine, the U.S. and the U.Ok.
Nord Circulate 1 have been in operation since 2011; Nord Circulate 2 was once finished however had no longer but begun pumping fuel by the point of the assaults. The pipelines have been tremendously debatable, with Ukraine, the U.S., Poland and others criticizing Germany for tying itself to Russian fuel exports — a place that become untenable following Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Denmark and Sweden additionally opened probes into the explosions, however the ones investigations had been suspended with out naming a suspect.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has in the past denied Kyiv was once concerned.
The German prosecutor’s investigation into the blasts additionally issues to 2 different Ukrainian nationals — a pair who run a diving college in Ukraine the place Zhuravlov labored as a diving teacher.
