A WARSAW court has thrown out a German attempt to extradite a Ukrainian on charges of blowing up three of the four Nord Stream pipelines supplying gas from Russia to Germany in 2022.
The judge ruled that even if Volodymr Zhuravlyov did it, the act was justified in time of war.
The Germans are not happy. But the Poles are. They have a bit of history with German-Russian pacts and had consistently opposed the construction of Nord Stream. Even Donald Tusk, the most Germanophile prime minister in Polish history, opposed the extradition. ‘The problem with Nord Stream is not that it was blown up, but that it was built,’ Tusk posted on X.
