The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia has denounced this Friday that the statements of the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, about the judicial procedure opened in Germany for the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline constitute a "direct provocation" aimed at Berlin.
"The direct appeal of the Polish side to its German ally --essentially, to accept with gratitude a terrorist attack against the key energy infrastructure of Germany, infrastructure that guaranteed tens of billions of euros in profits-- constitutes, without a doubt, a direct provocation," declared the Russian Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Maria Zajarova, at a press conference.
For the Kremlin, the "ostentatious" attitude of Warsaw in ignoring requests related to the case of the detainees could, over time, "turn against the vital interests and security of Poland itself."
"A public statement from the head of government of a major European state, in which a terrorist act committed openly before the eyes of the world is justified, sends a deeply destabilizing signal, whose chain reaction could end up precipitating the collapse of all the restrictions that have so far prevented interstate relations in the European continent from falling irretrievably into the law of the jungle," she clarified.
In this context, Zajarova emphasized the gap opened between European partners and held Tusk's government responsible for obtaining "extraordinary profits thanks to the re-export of U.S. liquefied natural gas to Ukraine," while, as she indicated, Berlin "desperately tries to curb the progressive deindustrialization of its economy, aggravated by the need to import expensive energy from the United States, Norway, and other countries."
"In the context of the division between Poland and Germany, the issue of the Nord Stream pipelines is clearly becoming nothing more than a source of political and economic losses for the Federal Republic of Germany and a dangerous vertigo for Warsaw."
For its part, the Kremlin spokesperson, Dimitri Peskov, defended that the commissioning of the two pipelines was a "real contribution to ensuring energy security" of the European continent, and expressed his "astonishment" at the fact that Tusk has repeatedly come out to support these "terrorist acts of sabotage."
In the context of the judicial process in Germany, the Prosecutor's Office accuses Volodomir Z, a professional diver, of being part of a group of six Ukrainian citizens who allegedly placed explosives in the section of the Nord Stream that connects Russia and Germany through the Baltic Sea. The suspect was arrested in Poland at the end of September 2025, but the Polish authorities decided to release him and disregard the extradition requests made by Berlin.
The explosion was recorded on September 26, 2022, near the Danish island of Bornholm, off the coast of Sweden. The attack occurred amid the ongoing war in Ukraine and, from the beginning, Moscow denied any involvement in the sabotage.