An arrest warrant over the sabotage of a multi-billion dollar gas pipeline.

Hello, live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service.

I'm Sarah Rogers in for Leanna Byrne. When mysterious explosions

hit an undersea multi-billion dollar pipeline carrying Russian gas to Europe almost two years ago, its inflamed tensions already raised by the invasion of Ukraine.

Then followed the blame game over who was responsible for blowing up Nord Stream, Russia, Ukraine or the US. Now German media is reporting an arrest

warrant has been issued for a Ukrainian man. BBC Berlin correspondent Damian

McGinnis has more.

According to three German media outlets, they did an investigation into who might have placed the

explosives on these Nord Stream pipelines and they've come up with the name of a man a

Ukrainian citizen who they've identified as Volodemeer Z and they say he was part of a team of experienced divers who hired a yacht, sailed

into the Baltic Sea and then placed the explosives on three of the four pipelines.

My colleague Adam Easton talked to the public prosecutor's office in Warsaw.

They said that Poland had indeed received an arrest warrant, a European arrest warrant

from Germany and that they had then subsequently gone to this man's residence. When they got there though he had already left and they say

that he had left from Poland into Ukraine. So do these reports clear up who ordered

the attack? Not necessarily, well in fact not at all.

I think what we might possibly know now is who physically place the explosives on the pipelines

if these reports are true, which some parts of the reports are indeed true according

to officials here. But that doesn't really give us much of an indication of who

might have ordered this attack. There have a course over the years been all sorts of conspiracy theories and

speculation about who might be behind this. Some people think it's the Ukrainian

state. Some people think it's Russia, there are even theories that the Americans are behind it, all sorts of ideas.

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