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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jakub Krupa

Ukrainian diver arrested in Croatia over Nord Stream pipeline bombings

Aerial view of gas leaking from the Nord Stream pipeline, causing foam to swirl on the sea
Gas bubbles up from the damaged Nord Stream 1 pipeline after an explosion in September 2022 in the Baltic. Photograph: Swedish coast guard/AFP/Getty Images

A Ukrainian man has been arrested in Croatia as part of an investigation into the 2022 bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Germany and Russia.

Undersea explosions in September 2022, just months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, damaged three of the four pipelines built to carry Russian fossil gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea.

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