The station added that the detainee was wanted under a European arrest warrant issued by a German court.

Polish media sources, including the newspaper Rzeczpospolita, recently revealed Warsaw’s intention to grant political asylum to a Ukrainian diver suspected of blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines that transport Russian gas to Europe via the Baltic Sea.

The individual in question is Ukrainian diving instructor “Vladimir Z.”, who was hiding in Poland before fleeing an arrest warrant by driving a car registered to the Ukrainian military attaché in Warsaw.

At the end of last August, the German public prosecutor announced that Italian authorities had arrested Ukrainian Sergey Kuznetsov on suspicion of involvement in the Nord Stream explosion in September 2022 and the mining of the pipelines near the Danish island of Bornholm.

Earlier this month, the Russian Foreign Ministry expressed doubts about the narrative blaming amateur divers for the Nord Stream pipeline explosions. Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova pointed out that blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines requires resources available only to intelligence agencies of major countries, and that the West, which did not cooperate with Russia in the investigation, has something to hide.

Earlier, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Russia repeatedly requested data related to the Nord Stream explosions but never received it. Meanwhile, Russia’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, announced that the United States and Britain are specifically preventing the start of an objective international investigation into this terrorist act.