“Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk made another provocative statement against Russia. Tusk, who is constantly trying to drag other EU and NATO countries into a war with Russia, clearly does not understand that Poland itself would be an inevitable victim of such a war if it occurred. It is in such a situation that it cannot avoid it,” the politician wrote on his Telegram channel. Pushkov is a member of the Russian Federation Council, formerly a representative of the State Duma, where he served as chairman of the foreign affairs committee.
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According to Pushkov, “Poland's extreme hostility towards Russia has already led the Polish nation to tragedy.” The Russian added that Warsaw is now counting on the “American umbrella”.
Donald Tusk comments on the court's decision
A Polish court refused to extradite to Germany a Ukrainian suspected of blowing up Nord Stream 2 and released him from custody. And rightly so. Case closed – said Prime Minister Donald Tusk after announcing the decision of the Warsaw district court regarding Volodymyr Ż.
Volodymyr Z. he was wanted on a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) issued by the German Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe on suspicion of constitutional sabotage, destruction of property and the destruction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. He was detained in Poland at the end of September. On Friday, the District Court in Warsaw did not agree to extradite him to the German side and revoked his provisional arrest.
“The Polish court refused to extradite to Germany a Ukrainian suspected of blowing up Nord Stream 2 and released him from custody. And rightly so. Case closed,” wrote the head of government on X.
Even before the Warsaw court announced this decision, the Prime Minister was asked by journalists in the Sejm about the results of a survey in which nearly half (49.2 percent) of respondents believed that Poland should not extradite Volodymyr Ż to the German services.
— There are several obvious reasons why the Polish state is not interested in prosecuting those who fight against Russia, but on the other hand there are also European regulations, the European Arrest Warrant, so the matter is also extremely complicated in the international dimension, and in the end, as you know, the court decides, said the Prime Minister.
He also said that history “is still about the same thing.” — That is, in our opinion, the real problem was the construction of Nord Stream 2, not its blowing up, however brutal these words sound and how they may annoy some Germans, Tusk said.
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