The Kremlin has lashed out this Friday against the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, for his recent comments against the judicial process opened against those allegedly responsible for the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, perpetrated in September 2022, after the arrest in Croatia of one of the suspects for possible extradition to Germany.
Dimitri Peskov, spokesperson for the Kremlin, has emphasized that the construction of both gas pipelines represented a "real contribution to ensuring energy security" for Europe, which is why it causes him "astonishment" that Tusk has come to the defense on several occasions of these "terrorist acts of sabotage."
"Those who invested in the construction of this gas pipeline, its two lines, those who launched the first line of Nord Stream, invested in the energy future and the competitiveness of the European economy," highlighted the spokesperson from Moscow at a press conference, according to the Interfax agency.
"Those who blew up one of the lines of Nord Stream committed a terrorist act of sabotage against a critical European energy infrastructure," Peskov insisted, thus responding to Tusk's words, who had stated that those who built the pipelines "should be ashamed" and "not those who rendered it useless."
"Germany should not prosecute those who, in a situation where their country has been attacked, carry out one action or another," opined the Polish Prime Minister after the new arrest, this time on Croatian territory, of the Ukrainian citizen Volodimir Z, one of those identified as authors of this sabotage.
Volodomir Z, a diver by profession, is being prosecuted by the German Prosecutor's Office for allegedly being part of a group of six Ukrainians who would have placed explosive charges in the section of the gas pipeline that connects Russia and Germany through the Baltic Sea. At the end of September 2025, he was already arrested in Poland, but the Polish authorities decided to release him and not respond to the extradition request made by Berlin.
The explosion occurred on September 26, 2022, near the Danish island of Bornholm, off the coast of Sweden. The attack took place in the full context of the war in Ukraine and, from the beginning, Moscow distanced itself from any implication in these events.