Poland\u2019s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has issued a warning following reports of secret talks involving US and Russian figures over a potential deal that could pressure Ukraine into ceding territory.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Polish news channel TVN24, Sikorski compared the reported back-channel discussions to the controversial Nord Stream pipeline project, calling them \u201clike Nord Stream, but times a hundred.\u201d<\/p>\n
Russia and Germany built the gas pipeline, which bypassed countries such as Poland and Ukraine, depriving them of transit fees and increasing Moscow’s regional leverage.<\/p>\n
Widely labelled by Moscow and Western governments as sabotage, the September 2022 Nord Stream explosions crippled the pipelines, cutting off most Russian gas flows to Europe. <\/p>\n
In November 2023, an international investigation identified Colonel Roman Chervinsky, a former commander in Ukraine\u2019s Special Operations Forces, as the primary coordinator of the Nord Stream sabotage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Plan to revive Russian economy\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n His comments came after The Wall Street Journal revealed that US special envoy Steve Witkoff, US President Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s envoy Kirill Dmitriev had explored a plan that would revive Russia\u2019s economy by steering major US corporate contracts in rare earth minerals and energy towards Russia.<\/p>\n According to the report, the talks included scenarios in which Ukraine could be pushed to surrender territory in exchange for vast US business opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poland\u2019s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has issued a warning following reports of secret talks involving US and Russian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-603492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115639112511755635","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}