# Warsaw moving closer to control of Kiev’s Soviet-era gas transit system — spokeswoman

https://mins.news/en/item/28861

- TASS, 2026-08-21 21:11 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/politics/2176313

> Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Poland is moving closer to controlling Ukraine’s Soviet-era gas transit system. She said Warsaw benefits from re-exporting US liquefied natural gas to Ukraine and commented on Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s remarks defending the attack on the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipelines.

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