WARSAW, Poland — Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Saturday responded to reports that restored concerns about who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines in 2022, stating the initiators of the gas pipeline job oughtto “apologize and keep peaceful.” That remark came after one of his deputies rejected a claim that Warsaw was partially accountable for its damage.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that Ukrainian authorities were accountable for blowing up the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in September 2022, a significant act of sabotage that cut Germany off from a secret source of energy and intensified an energy crisis in Europe.
Germany was a partner with Russia in the pipeline job. Poland has long stated its own security interests haveactually been damaged by Nord Stream.
“To all the initiators and clients of Nord Stream 1 and 2. The just thing you must do today about it is apologise and keep peaceful,” Tusk composed on the social media website X Saturday.
Tusk appeared to be responding particularly to a claim by a previous head of Germany’s foreign intelligence company, BND, August Hanning, who informed the German day-to-day Die Welt that the attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines should have had Poland’s assistance. Hanning stated Germany needsto thinkabout lookingfor payment from Poland and Ukraine.
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