Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, and a Ukrainian saboteur: an explosive recipe?
We’ve been reporting 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 convince the world that the mean Russians had sabotaged their own pipelines – but that didn’t stick.
Later, Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh, based on his unnamed sources, wrote that the explosions were an op run by the CIA.
But German police and prosecutors laboriously worked over four years on an investigation, and have arrived at the conclusion that a team of Ukrainians, ‘under state orders’, was guilty of the attacks.
The leader of this team, Serhii Kuznetzov, has been charged with a war crime under international law: attacking civilian energy infrastructure, as well as causing an explosion, destroying structures/infrastructure.
Yesterday (19), German prosecutors announced that a second Ukrainian suspect of the Nord Stream pipeline blasts was arrested in Croatia, and will be extradited to Germany.
Some outlets are following the German rules and calling the suspect Volodymyr Z., but many others have identified the man as Volodymyr Zhuravlyov.
German prosecutors secured the arrest of a second person in its Nord Stream gas pipelines sabotage investigation https://t.co/Z9pYDup6pt
— Bloomberg (@business) August 19, 2026
Reuters reported:
“Germany’s federal prosecutors’ office identified the second Ukrainian national only as Vladimir Z. in a statement, adding that he was arrested in the Croatian city of Pula by local police forces who acted on a European arrest warrant.
The prosecutors said [Volodymyr Zhuravlyov] was a trained scuba diver who was part of a group led by Serhii [Kuznetzov] that planted explosives targeting the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines.”
A scuba diver walked free once already. Not this time.
– Croatia just arrested a Ukrainian accused of diving to plant explosives on Nord Stream.
– Poland caught him in 2025 but a court refused to send him to Germany, calling it a just act.
– He then vanished, resurfaced in… pic.twitter.com/f2U32XA2vK— Unbiased Headlines (@UnbiasedHdlns) August 19, 2026
Zhuravlyov was first arrested in Poland, but the government of Liberal Donald Tusk refused to extradite him to Germany – so they set him free, and he promptly vanished.
Today the Polish PM repeated his idiotic take that the saboteurs are actually ‘heroes’.
TVP World reported:
“Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said Germany should not prosecute suspects accused of blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, adding those who built the Russian gas links ‘should be ashamed, not those who disabled them’.
Asked on Thursday whether he still believed the suspect should not face criminal liability, Tusk said he had not changed his position.
[…] ‘But Germany should certainly not prosecute those who, in a situation where their country has been attacked, take one action or another. I will not change my mind here, and I believe that those who built this pipeline should be ashamed, not those who disabled it’.”
A Ukrainian man arrested in the Nord Stream bombing was detained while working on a Hollywood movie about the gas pipeline attack starring Adrien Brody and Sean Penn, a report said Thursday.https://t.co/HmgK99wAw2
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) August 20, 2026
And apparently, not only Tusk thinks that the man who committed the greatest act of sabotage since WW2 (a war crime) is heroic: Zhuravlyov was reportedly detained while working on a Hollywood movie about the gas pipeline attack starring Adrien Brody and Sean Penn.
AFP reported:
“Germany’s Legal Tribune Online reported he was arrested while working on the set for the movie ‘Snake Island’ by US director Doug Liman (“Bourne Identity”), with Brody and three-time Oscar winner Penn.
Zhuravlyov worked as an advisor for the film, according to media reports AFP was unable to immediately verify with German or Croatian authorities.”
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