Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, and a Ukrainian saboteur: an explosive recipe?
We’ve been reporting right here on TGP from day one on the explosions that destroyed the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which occurred in 2022.
At first, MSM tried to persuade the world that the imply Russians had sabotaged their very own pipelines – however that didn’t stick.
Later, Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh, based mostly on his unnamed sources, wrote that the explosions have been an op run by the CIA.
However German police and prosecutors laboriously labored over 4 years on an investigation, and have arrived on the conclusion {that a} crew of Ukrainians, ‘below state orders’, was responsible of the assaults.
The chief of this crew, Serhii Kuznetzov, has been charged with a war crime under international law: attacking civilian vitality infrastructure, in addition to inflicting an explosion, destroying buildings/infrastructure.
Yesterday (19), German prosecutors introduced {that a} second Ukrainian suspect of the Nord Stream pipeline blasts was arrested in Croatia, and can be extradited to Germany.
Some retailers are following the German guidelines and calling the suspect Volodymyr Z., however many others have recognized the person as Volodymyr Zhuravlyov.
German prosecutors secured the arrest of a second particular person in its Nord Stream gasoline pipelines sabotage investigation https://t.co/Z9pYDup6pt
— Bloomberg (@enterprise) August 19, 2026
Reuters reported:
“Germany’s federal prosecutors’ workplace recognized the second Ukrainian nationwide solely as Vladimir Z. in a press release, including that he was arrested within the Croatian metropolis of Pula by native police forces who acted on a European arrest warrant.
The prosecutors stated [Volodymyr Zhuravlyov] was a educated scuba diver who was a part of a bunch led by Serhii [Kuznetzov] that planted explosives concentrating on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gasoline pipelines.”
A scuba diver walked free as soon as already. Not this time.
– Croatia simply arrested a Ukrainian accused of diving to plant explosives on Nord Stream.
– Poland caught him in 2025 however a court docket refused to ship him to Germany, calling it a simply act.
– He then vanished, resurfaced in… pic.twitter.com/f2U32XA2vK— Unbiased Headlines (@UnbiasedHdlns) August 19, 2026
Zhuravlyov was first arrested in Poland, however the authorities of Liberal Donald Tusk refused to extradite him to Germany – in order that they set him free, and he promptly vanished.
Right this moment the Polish PM repeated his idiotic take that the saboteurs are literally ‘heroes’.
TVP World reported:
“Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has stated Germany mustn’t prosecute suspects accused of blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, including those that constructed the Russian gasoline hyperlinks ‘needs to be ashamed, not those that disabled them’.
Requested on Thursday whether or not he nonetheless believed the suspect mustn’t face legal legal responsibility, Tusk stated he had not modified his place.
[…] ‘However Germany ought to actually not prosecute those that, in a scenario the place their nation has been attacked, take one motion or one other. I can’t change my thoughts right here, and I imagine that those that constructed this pipeline needs to be ashamed, not those that disabled it’.”
A Ukrainian man arrested within the Nord Stream bombing was detained whereas engaged on a Hollywood film in regards to the gasoline pipeline assault starring Adrien Brody and Sean Penn, a report stated Thursday.https://t.co/HmgK99wAw2
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) August 20, 2026
And apparently, not solely Tusk thinks that the person who dedicated the best act of sabotage since WW2 (a warfare crime) is heroic: Zhuravlyov was reportedly detained whereas engaged on a Hollywood film in regards to the gasoline pipeline assault starring Adrien Brody and Sean Penn.
AFP reported:
“Germany’s Authorized Tribune On-line reported he was arrested whereas engaged on the set for the film ‘Snake Island’ by US director Doug Liman (“Bourne Identification”), with Brody and three-time Oscar winner Penn.
Zhuravlyov labored as an advisor for the movie, in keeping with media reviews AFP was unable to right away confirm with German or Croatian authorities.”
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