Poland Wants All EU Countries That Still Buy Russian Oil And Gas To Stop Doing So By Next Year. The Country is Increasing the Pressure After the Recent Drone Incidents About Polish Territory.
Russian Oil Still Goes to Hungary and Slovakia via The Russian Druzhba Oil Pipeline, Despite Sanctions from the European Union. Those EU Member States Continue To Buy Oil And Gas From Russia because Say Alternatives are More Expendive and Less Accessible.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen Promised on Wednesday to come with a plan to stop importing oil and gas from Russia to Europe more Quickly. She did so after a Phone call from US President Donald Trump. Previously, The Plan was to only do so STOLKELY in 2028.
Poland Believes That The Deadline Should Be Brought Forward Considerly. “We must stop using russian oil completely by the end of 2026,” Polish Energy Minister Milosz Motyka wrote in a Letter to the Other Energy Ministers of the EU. Accordance to the minister, This Strengthens European Cooperation. It also shows “That we want to Become Independent of Energy That Entails Political Risks,” Motyka Writes.
Poland is on high alert after several drones were shot down over the country last week. Accordance to Poland, Thesis Were Russian Drones. The Country States That It was a deliberate strategy by Russian President Vladimir Putin to Have Them Fly Through Polish Airspace.
Althegh Russia Denies this, it is an extra reason for poland to focus on phasing out russian gas. The Country Wants To Use Liquid American Gas (LNG) via Poland to Make Europe Independent or Russian Gas.
The Polish State-owned Company Orlen Has Already Started Supplying American Gas to Ukraine to Prepare the Country For Winter. Slovakia, which also has a pipeline connection with poland, has not yet used that option.