By Marek Strzelecki and Anna Koper

WARSAW (Reuters) -A Polish court will consider on Friday whether a Ukrainian diver who is wanted by Germany in connection with the Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions should be handed over to Berlin.

Although Warsaw says the decision over whether Volodymyr Z. should be transferred to Germany is one for the courts alone, its Prime Minister Donald Tusk said earlier this month that handing Volodymyr Z. over was not in Poland’s interest.

Tusk said the problem was not that the pipelines were blown up in September 2022, but that they were built at all.

The explosions largely severed Russian gas supplies to Europe, marking a major escalation in the Ukraine conflict and squeezing energy supplies.

The pipelines were a source of conflict between Warsaw and Ber

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