Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has strongly rebuked recent allegations suggesting Poland’s involvement in the Nord Stream pipeline attacks.
Just Keep Quiet
In a pointed message on social media platform X, Tusk addressed the proponents of the Nord Stream project, stating:
"You should do just one thing today:"apologize and keep quiet."
The controversy surrounding the Nord Stream pipelines has intensified following a report by the American newspaper Wall Street Journal on Thursday. The article attributed the attacks on Nord Stream 1 and 2 to Ukrainian authorities.
This claim was promptly denied by Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who asserted that Russia was behind the September 2022 attacks.
A Direct Rebuttal
Additionally, former German intelligence chief August Hanning suggested to Die Welt that the attacks on the pipelines might have received support from Poland, and had the approval of Ukrainian President Zelensky and Polish President Andrzej Duda.
Tusk's response was a direct rebuttal to these assertions. On August 17, he took to social media to express his discontent with the accusations, firmly challenging the claims made about Poland's alleged role in the attacks.
His comments come in the wake of the September 26, 2022, incident where three of the four pipelines of Nord Stream 1 and 2 were destroyed at a depth of around 80 meters beneath the Baltic Sea.
For years, Nord Stream 1 was a major conduit for Russian natural gas to Germany, and the project had faced significant criticism from Eastern and Western European countries due to its geopolitical implications.
