Polish President Karol Nawrocki on Wednesday called for NATO’s military fuel pipeline network to be extended to the alliance’s eastern flank, arguing the project would strengthen regional security and military readiness.
Speaking at the NATO summit in Ankara, Nawrocki said extending the dual-use pipeline network would help address one of the key logistical challenges facing NATO in the event of a conflict with Russia.
“The dual-use nature of the pipeline provides an opportunity to strengthen the security of NATO’s entire eastern flank. It is also an opportunity for me and for Central Europe to raise this issue once again,” Nawrocki was quoted as saying by Polish public broadcaster TVP.
If implemented, the expansion would become one of Europe’s largest infrastructure projects.
Senior NATO military officials have advocated extending the alliance’s Cold War-era fuel pipeline network hundreds of kilometres eastward to Poland and the three Baltic states, and eventually farther north to Finland and southeast to Romania.
