The pipelines should have never been built anyway, Donald Tusk has said<\/p>\n
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has expressed his opposition to extraditing a Ukrainian suspect in the Nord Stream sabotage case to Germany. The Polish authorities detained the man last month. Berlin\u2019s previous request for his arrest was reportedly obstructed by the Polish government in 2024.
\nIt is ultimately up to a court to decide whether the suspect identified by the media as Vladimir Z. will be handed over to Berlin, Tusk told a press conference on Tuesday. However, he maintained that the move would not be good for Warsaw.
\n\u201cIt is certainly not in the interest of Poland… to hand over this citizen to a foreign country,\u201d the prime minister said. \u201cThe problem of Europe, the problem of Ukraine, the problem of Lithuania and Poland is not that Nord Stream 2 was blown up, but that it was built.\u201d
\nThe German authorities have not commented on Tusk\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n
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Poland weighed asylum for Nord Stream bombing suspect \u2013 media<\/p>\n
Vladimir Z. was detained in the city of Pruszkow in late September. The suspect is a Ukrainian diving instructor, who was reportedly part of a team behind the Nord Stream pipeline explosions. The four undersea pipelines were rendered inoperable in September 2022 as a result of a sabotage. German prosecutors have attributed the underwater blasts to a small group of Ukrainian nationals that sailed to the scene aboard the rented yacht Andromeda.
\nMoscow has rejected Berlin\u2019s version, dismissing the claim that a small group of Ukrainians carried out the sabotage as \u201cridiculous.\u201d Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested the US likely orchestrated the operation.
\nWarsaw, which has been one of Kiev\u2019s staunchest backers since 2022, allegedly considered granting asylum to the suspect, according to a September report by Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita. Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski also repeatedly stated that he was ready to do so.
\nPrevious media reports also suggested that Polish officials helped Vladimir Z. avoid arrest on a German request last year by tipping him off. A vehicle with Ukrainian diplomatic plates reportedly allowed him to flee to Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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