Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Poland’s refusal to supply oil to a German refinery once again indicates suspicions of European solidarity and that Warsaw is pursuing its own interests.
Earlier, the Financial Times reported that Poland refused to supply oil to refineries in the German city of Schwedt in exchange for Russian energy imported through the Druzhba pipeline through the Polish city of Gdansk.
Commenting on this issue, Zakharova said in an interview with Radio Sputnik: “This is another argument in the piggy bank that Warsaw does not intend to play any game, even according to its own rules, which are declared. Warsaw has interests that have nothing to do with mutual respect and mutually beneficial partnerships with Ukraine.
The representative of Russian diplomacy pointed out that now Poland is driven by “the desire to play the geopolitical card, while completely forgetting all the promises of the euro and the promises of European solidarity.”
Zakharova saw Poland pursuing goals, including: “to be the leader of the will of a completely non-European continent, not to play for the good of its neighbors and EU partners, but to seize the moment, get away from the situation and play the energy card as often as possible on an individual basis.”
And Polish President Andrzej Duda earlier called for “getting rid of” the Russian gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 (Nord Stream 2), saying that there would be no return to work, as it was in the past, if we talk about relations with Russia.
Source: RIA Novosti