MOSCOW, August 22. /TASS/. Poland is getting closer to taking control of Ukraine’s Soviet-era gas transit system, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

She commented on Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s remarks justifying the terrorist attack against the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipelines.

"Warsaw is benefiting from re-exporting US liquefied natural gas to Ukraine and moving closer to de facto control of the gas transit system Kiev inherited from the Soviet Union. Berlin, meanwhile, is desperately trying to slow the deindustrialization of its economy caused by the need to import expensive energy from the United States, Norway and other countries," the diplomat said.