Germans furious over Nord Stream ruling: What is Poland hiding?

“A few years ago, the mysterious attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines shook the West. At the time, with Russia as the main suspect, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised “the strongest possible response,” while an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky railed against a “terrorist attack on the EU.”

 

Now everything has changed. Russia is no longer the target of the investigation, and most Western officials seem to have lost the will to find the real perpetrators and bring them to justice. The main German investigation has led to the highest levels of Ukrainian government. It is an uncomfortable turn for many capitals. Last week, a Polish court suspended the extradition of a Ukrainian suspect to Germany and ordered his release. The judge declared his actions a “legitimate military operation,” and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk hailed the decision: “Right, the case is closed.”

 

Poland’s role

 

It’s a strange reaction to the attack in the Swedish and Danish economic zones, which damaged infrastructure that was partly owned by Europeans. The pipelines, which carried Russian gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea, were 51 percent Russian, with the rest owned by German, French and Dutch companies.”