An arrest warrant has been issued for a Ukrainian suspect in relation to the Nord Stream pipeline explosion, according to reports.

An arrest warrant has been issued by German authorities for a Ukrainian national in relation to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline explosion two years ago, reigniting speculations about Ukraine's role in the incident.

"Volodymyr Z," identified by German media but not by name, had resided in Poland at the time of the arrest warrant but escaped to Ukraine before authorities could execute it in early July. He lived in Pruszkow, near Warsaw, Poland, according to the BBC.

In September 2022, a group of six experienced Ukrainian divers, including Volodymyr Z, rented a German yacht and planted explosives on the Nord Stream pipeline, causing damage to several pipelines.

Despite sanctions imposed on Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine, the pipelines were approved by the West as a means of facilitating the sale of gas to Europe.

The underwater detonations on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which transport Russian natural gas to Germany, took place in international waters but within Swedish and Danish economic zones. Earlier, Sweden stated that a state actor was the most probable suspect.

The group posed as a group going out on a pleasure cruise, with the help of a female diver, for four months at a cost of around $300,000, as reported by The Wall Street Journal.

The CIA asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to stop a plan he originally supported, but Commander-in-Chief Valeriy Zaluzhniy ignored the order and pushed ahead with it, according to the WSJ.

Ukrainian defense and security officials reportedly viewed the pipelines as a legitimate target in the war, but Zaluzhniy denied the claims and labeled them as "mere provocation."

According to Politico, citing German publication Welt am Sonntag, German intelligence officers expressed concerns that the reports may be part of a Russian "false flag operation" to cover up their involvement in self-sabotage in Ukraine, which helped justify their continued invasion.

According to Politico, Polish security agents believe that Russian suspects are responsible for the attack, while Germany's Federal Intelligence Service maintains that Ukrainian responsibility is the cause.

Two other suspects, Svitlana and Yevhen Uspenska, a married couple who run a diving school in Ukraine, were named by German media. However, they denied any involvement in the incident, with Svitlana Uspenska stating that she was in Kyiv at the time.

Investigations into the incident were opened by Germany, Denmark, and Sweden, but only Sweden and Denmark closed their probes earlier this year.

The Swedes and Danes concluded that they lacked "sufficient evidence" to prosecute the incident as an act of sabotage, despite discovering explosives on several objects at the site.

Kenneth Øhlenschlæger Buhl of the Royal Danish Defense College predicted Denmark's decision to end the investigation, according to The Associated Press.

"Øhlenschlæger Buhl stated that the Swedes had a good idea of the perpetrator's identity but lacked authority to speak with them, while the Danes expressed a similar sentiment with slightly different phrasing."

In 2023, U.S. intelligence concluded that a pro-Ukrainian group was responsible for the attack, and then-National Security Council spokesman John Kirby stated that the U.S. believed it was an act of sabotage, emphasizing that the U.S. was not implicated.

Neither the US State Department nor the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry responded to a Planet Chronicle Digital request for comment by the time of publication.

This report was contributed to by Louis Casiano of Planet Chronicle Digital and The Associated Press.