A court on Friday will rule on whether to extradite to Germany a Ukrainian suspected of involvement in sabotaging the .
A series of underwater explosions damaged the Nord Stream pipelines in September 2022, seven months after .
What did the Polish government say about the suspect?
Earlier this month, , identified only as Volodymyr Z., suggesting it was not in Poland’s national interest.
“The problem with North Stream 2 is not that it was blown up. The problem is that it was built,” Tusk said in a post on X.
Poland has long been critical of the pipelines, arguing that they increased German dependence on Russian gas. This view was shared by other states on , as well as by Ukraine and the United States.
The , who has been accused by the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) and the far-right Confederation party of .
The Warsaw regional prosecutors’ spokesperson, Piotr Skiba, said that on legal grounds it would be difficult not to hand the suspect over to Germany.
“It’s very difficult to find any grounds on which we couldn’t transfer him to the Germans,” he said on Thursday.
Who was behind the Nord Stream explosions?
According to German media reports, the German Prosecutor’s Office in Karlsruhe suspects a group of Ukrainians linked to Kyiv’s secret service and military of having been behind the suspected attack.
Volodymyr Z.’s defense lawyer has said that his client plans to plead not guilty.
He questioned whether the destruction of Russian property by Ukrainians could be considered a criminal matter in light of Moscow’s invasion of its neighbor.
In August, over alleged involvement in the sabotage operation.
No group has claimed responsibility for the damage to the pipelines and .
Edited by: Wesley Rahn
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