Poland has the right to sink ships of the Russian Federation and shoot down aircraft only if they threaten the Baltic Pipeline gas pipeline.
In Poland, they decided to attack and sink foreign ships if they threatened the Baltic Pipeline gas pipeline laid at the bottom of the sea. The relevant decision was taken by the Polish Parliament on Thursday, May 4th.
The adopted document talks about enabling the Polish military to respond to threats related to attacks on energy infrastructure at sea.
But before taking such drastic measures against foreign ships, the country needs to get accurate information from NATO that ships at sea really want it and could damage the underwater part of the gas pipeline.
The document, adopted by the Polish Parliament, also says that in exceptional circumstances and when other options have been exhausted, the military will be allowed to prevent a terrorist attack by sinking an enemy ship or airship.
The law also allows foreign civilian aircraft to be shot down if terrorist attacks are carried out using these vehicles. However, this is only allowed as a last resort when other options for neutralizing the threat have been exhausted and there are only terrorists on board.
The area of counter-terrorism operations, where the new rules will apply, will be expanded to cover the entire maritime area of Poland.
Note that no official in the Russian Federation has yet commented on this bill.
Baltic Pipe gas pipeline: what is known about it
The Baltic Pipe is a natural gas pipeline connecting Norway to the rest of Europe via the Baltic Sea. It opened in September 2022.
Baltic Pipe transports up to 10 bcm of natural gas per year from the North Sea to Poland via Denmark.
The Baltic Pipeline Project consists of five main components: the North Sea Offshore Pipeline, the Danish coastline and compressor station, the Baltic Bottom Offshore Pipeline and the Polish coastline.
Recall that on May 3, the media wrote that Russian ships were in the Nord Stream area before a series of explosions. Journalists were able to collect and compose very detailed data on the movements of Russian ships in the area shortly before the sabotage. Russian ships were moving with their identification devices turned off.
And on March 27 it became known that the UN rejected the decision of the Russian Federation to undermine Nord Stream. US Permanent Representative to the UN Robert Wood accused the Kremlin of trying to block ongoing national investigations into the Nord Stream bombings.
Source: Focus
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