Newspaper: Poland was ready to grant asylum to suspect in Nord Stream bombing case

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski was ready to offer asylum and award an order to Ukrainian national Volodymyr Zh., who is suspected by German authorities of involvement in the sabotage of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipelines and fled to Ukraine from Poland in July 2024 after Berlin issued an arrest warrant for him, Rzeczpospolita newspaper writes.

It is claimed that Sikorski repeatedly raised this idea in private discussions.

The newspaper notes that Warsaw does not consider Volodymyr Zh.’s guilt proven, as he was listed “only as one of the suspects.”

On September 26, 2022, an explosion occurred in the depths of the Baltic Sea, not far from the Danish island of Bornholm. As a result, three of the four Nord Stream pipelines, used for years to transport gas from Russia to Germany, were destroyed.

Moscow had completely halted supplies four weeks before the explosion. And since February, it had been waging an aggressive war against Ukraine, for which it had armed itself well, thanks in part to the multibillion-dollar profits from gas trade with Berlin.

By Khagan Isayev