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Ukraine's allies warn Europe against returning to Russian gas as part of a peace deal

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Estonia 's Kadri Elias-Hindoalla : "Going back is not a good solution in any way" Estonia , a NATO member which shares a 294-kilometer ( 183 miles ) border with Russia , is among those calling on the 27 -nation bloc not to reopen Russian gas pipelines.

The Financial Times reported that some EU officials had endorsed the idea as one way of lowering regional energy costs.

Poland , a staunch Ukraine ally and another European country that shares a border with Russia 's Kaliningrad , has also urged EU countries not to reopen Russian gas flows. "I can only hope that European leaders will learn lessons from Russia 's aggression against Ukraine and that they will push through a decision to never restore the pumping of gas through this pipeline," Polish President Andrzej Duda said in an interview with the BBC last month . His comments referred to the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, which connects Russia and northern Germany via the Baltic Sea ..