{"id":29894,"date":"2025-10-18T10:03:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T14:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=29894"},"modified":"2025-10-18T10:15:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T14:15:37","slug":"polish-judge-refuses-to-extradite-ukrainian-nord-stream-blasts-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2025\/10\/18\/polish-judge-refuses-to-extradite-ukrainian-nord-stream-blasts-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish judge refuses to extradite Ukrainian Nord Stream blasts suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Polish judge has refused to extradite a Ukrainian citizen \u2013 suspected by Germany of sabotaging the Nord Stream gas pipelines in September 2022 \u2013 arguing that if Ukraine was responsible for the attack, then it was a “just” act.<\/b><\/p>\n

Volodymyr Zhuravlyov, who was brought to Warsaw District Court in handcuffs, was detained in Poland last month on a European arrest warrant.<\/p>\n

Judge Dariusz Lubowski ordered his release, after a ruling that was met with a ripple of surprise from the crowd in court and a smile from the man in the dock.<\/p>\n

Mr Zhuravlyov, along with others, is suspected of planting explosives deep beneath the Baltic Sea on the pipelines leading from Russia to Germany.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Blame for the blasts, which crippled a long-controversial energy supply line from Russia to Germany, initially focused on Moscow until signs of Ukrainian involvement began to emerge.<\/p>\n

Officials in Kyiv have repeatedly denied any role.<\/p>\n

Extradition cases within the EU are usually quick and straightforward, but the Nord Stream case is proving to be very different.<\/p>\n

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, whose government is a key ally of war-torn Ukraine, immediately posted on X that the ruling was right.<\/p>\n

“Case closed,” he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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