Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has responded to allegations that Ukraine and Poland had been involved in the NordStream pipeline sabotage by saying that the initiators of the controversial project should remain quiet.
On Thursday, the U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal reported that the Ukrainian authorities were responsible for blowing up the NordStream 1 and 2 pipelines bringing Russian gas to Germany.
This was denied by Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak. According to him, Russia was behind the September 2022 attacks.
Meanwhile, a former head of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency (BND), August Hanning, told the German daily Die Welt that the attack on the NordStream gas pipelines must have been carried out with Poland’s support and with the approval of the Ukrainian and Polish presidents, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Andrzej Duda.
On Saturday, prime minister Tusk took to social media to react to the allegations of Ukraine’s and Poland’s involvement in the plot.
“To all the initiators and patrons of NordStream 1 and 2. The only thing you should do today about it is apologise and keep quiet,” he wrote on the X social media platform.
Jacek Siewiera, head of the National Security Bureau with the office of the President of Poland responded to the PM’s tweet, saying:
“Bad news for the addressees: there is an [sic] rock-solid consensus in Poland on this matter as well.”
On September 26, 2022, three of the four lines of the two NordStream 1 and 2 gas pipelines were badly damaged by explosions at a depth of approximately 80 meters on the bed of the Baltic Sea. A large part of Russian natural gas for Germany was supplied directly by NordStream 1.
This was denied by Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak. According to him, Russia was behind the September 2022 attacks.
Meanwhile, a former head of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency (BND), August Hanning, told the German daily Die Welt that the attack on the NordStream gas pipelines must have been carried out with Poland’s support and with the approval of the Ukrainian and Polish presidents, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Andrzej Duda.
On Saturday, prime minister Tusk took to social media to react to the allegations of Ukraine’s and Poland’s involvement in the plot.
“To all the initiators and patrons of NordStream 1 and 2. The only thing you should do today about it is apologise and keep quiet,” he wrote on the X social media platform.
The sentiment expressed by the PM is shared by the officials at the presidential palace – not an obvious matter given the uneasy cohabitation between the broad coalition government composed of parties ranging from center-right liberal to left and the head of state elected on a right-wing conservative ticket, who is seen as an ally of the largest opposition party in parliament and former ruling party, Law and Justice (PiS).To all the initiators and patrons of Nord Stream 1 and 2. The only thing you should do today about it is apologise and keep quiet.
— Donald Tusk (@donaldtusk) August 17, 2024
Jacek Siewiera, head of the National Security Bureau with the office of the President of Poland responded to the PM’s tweet, saying:
“Bad news for the addressees: there is an [sic] rock-solid consensus in Poland on this matter as well.”
Bad news for the addressees:
— Jacek Siewiera (@JacekSiewiera) August 17, 2024
there is an rock-solid consensus in Poland on this matter as well 😉
NordStream controversy
On September 26, 2022, three of the four lines of the two NordStream 1 and 2 gas pipelines were badly damaged by explosions at a depth of approximately 80 meters on the bed of the Baltic Sea. A large part of Russian natural gas for Germany was supplied directly by NordStream 1.
Many Eastern European and Western countries had repeatedly strongly criticized the project and warned about the geopolitical consequences of bypassing Eastern Europe in the transit of gas. One of the chief critics of the project was and is Germany’s foreign minister Annalena Baerbock of the Greens party.
During the Russian aggression against Ukraine, Moscow suspended supplies even before the destruction of Nord Stream 1. In turn, the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline was ultimately not launched due to the Russian invasion and the resulting political disputes.
During the Russian aggression against Ukraine, Moscow suspended supplies even before the destruction of Nord Stream 1. In turn, the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline was ultimately not launched due to the Russian invasion and the resulting political disputes.
Source: PAP, X (Twitter), TVP World
