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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 15th. According to reports from Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Reuters, AFP and other media, the Polish prosecutor's office confirmed on the 14th that Poland had received a "European Arrest Warrant" from Germany, requesting Poland to assist in the arrest of a Ukrainian citizen suspected of participating in the destruction of the "Nord Stream" natural gas pipeline in 2022, but this person is no longer in Poland.

According to Anna Adamiak, a spokeswoman for the Polish prosecutor's office, the German authorities issued a "European arrest warrant" to the regional prosecutor's office in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, in June, involving the relevant procedures for Germany to handle the case involving the Ukrainian suspect. The suspect's last known whereabouts were in July when he entered Poland from Ukraine, but the Polish side did not find him when it searched his residence.

This aerial photo released by the Danish Ministry of Defense on September 27, 2022 shows a leak in the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline. Xinhua News Agency (Photo provided by the Danish Ministry of Defense)

In accordance with Polish law, the prosecutor's office did not disclose the suspect's full name, only calling him "Vladimir Z." "In the end, Vladimir Z was not arrested because he crossed the Polish-Ukrainian border in early July and left Polish territory," Adamiak replied to reporters in an email.

She explained that the suspect was able to move freely in and out of the Polish-Ukrainian border because the relevant German agencies had not entered his name into the database of wanted persons, "which meant that the Polish border guards had no way of knowing and no reason to arrest Vladimir Z."