Poland warns against restarting Russia gas supplies

Andrzej Duda says even if a peace deal with Ukraine is struck, pipelines to Europe should stay shut.
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Andrzej Duda told the BBC that the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which have not been used since 2022, "should be dismantled".
This, he said, would mean the likes of Germany would not be tempted to restore Russian supplies to boost its own struggling economy.
"I can only hope that European leaders will learn lessons from Russia's aggression against Ukraine and that they will push through a decision to never restore the pumping of gas through this pipeline," he said.
The Polish president, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, insisted that economic sanctions against Russia were working and European countries should resist pressure from companies to re-establish business links.
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