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A 4th of a period aft it joined NATO and amid rising hostility connected its eastbound frontier, Poland volition yet articulation the alliance's substance pipeline network, the authorities said connected Friday (October 3, 2025).
The Western allies run a 10,000-km web of European pipelines, bringing substance and lubricants for tanks and craft to wherever troops mightiness request them successful clip of war.
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But the strategy was acceptable up during the Cold War, erstwhile Poland was inactive a subordinate of the opposing Warsaw Pact, and NATO's pipelines inactive bash not scope its bases person to the borders with Russia and Belarus.
Poland has been considering joining the NATO Pipeline System (NPS) for galore years, and connected Friday, the Defence Ministry and nationalist pipeline relation PERN unveiled a 4.7-billion-euro program to bash so.
"This is 1 of the largest investments successful the information of the Polish authorities successful the past 30 years," Deputy Defence Minister Cezary Tomczyk told reporters astatine the signing ceremony.
Warsaw, the Minister said, plans to physique a 300-kilometre pipeline from Germany to its subject basal successful Bydgoszcz, successful north-central Poland and location to NATO's "joint unit grooming centre" and respective enactment units.
The confederation has helped money the studies underlying the readying of the extension, but Poland and PERN volition physique and run their conception of the task erstwhile each 32 allies springiness the go-ahead.
Poland is NATO's starring subject spender successful presumption of proportionality of GDP assigned to subject and information programmes and a staunch state of neighbouring Ukraine, which suffered an all-out Russian penetration successful February 2022.
Last period Poland was among the NATO members rattled by a flurry of alleged Russian drone incursions into allied aerial space.
