diff --git a/lib/internal/streams/readable.js b/lib/internal/streams/readable.js
index b282f51b4e885e..e206bda798beb4 100644
--- a/lib/internal/streams/readable.js
+++ b/lib/internal/streams/readable.js
@@ -1165,6 +1165,29 @@ async function* createAsyncIterator(stream, options) {
   }
 }
 
+function staticUnref(stream) {
+  const unrefStream = new Readable({
+    objectMode: stream.readableObjectMode ?? stream.objectMode ?? true,
+    // highWaterMark 0 as unref is basically a proxy, so don't consume more data
+    // as we would lose it when continue consuming from the original stream
+    highWaterMark: 0,
+    // TODO - what about other options?
+    destroy(err, callback) {
+      // Not destroying the stream here as we unref it.
+      callback(err);
+    },
+  }).wrap(stream);
+
+  unrefStream.once('error', (e) => {
+    if (e.name !== 'AbortError') {
+      destroyImpl.destroyer(stream, e);
+    }
+  });
+
+  return unrefStream;
+}
+
+
 // Making it explicit these properties are not enumerable
 // because otherwise some prototype manipulation in
 // userland will fail.
@@ -1409,6 +1432,8 @@ Readable.from = function(iterable, opts) {
   return from(Readable, iterable, opts);
 };
 
+Readable.unref = staticUnref;
+
 let webStreamsAdapters;
 
 // Lazy to avoid circular references
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-stream-unref.js b/test/parallel/test-stream-unref.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..60935374fa27f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/parallel/test-stream-unref.js
@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+'use strict';
+require('../common');
+
+const {
+  Readable,
+  pipeline,
+  PassThrough
+} = require('stream');
+const { it } = require('node:test');
+const { strictEqual, deepStrictEqual } = require('assert');
+
+const { from, unref } = Readable;
+
+const nextTick = () => new Promise((resolve) => process.nextTick(resolve));
+
+it('unref stream error should propagate to original one', async () => {
+  const originalStream = from([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]);
+
+  let emittedError;
+  originalStream.on('error', (e) => {
+    emittedError = e;
+  });
+  const unrefStream = unref(originalStream);
+
+  const thrownError = new Error('test');
+
+  unrefStream.destroy(thrownError);
+
+  await nextTick();
+  strictEqual(unrefStream.destroyed, true);
+  strictEqual(originalStream.destroyed, true);
+
+  // Need another tick to propagate the error
+  await nextTick();
+  strictEqual(emittedError, thrownError);
+});
+
+it('Original stream error should propagate to unref one', async () => {
+  const originalStream = from([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]);
+  const unrefStream = unref(originalStream);
+
+  let emittedError;
+  unrefStream.on('error', (e) => {
+    emittedError = e;
+  });
+
+  const thrownError = new Error('test');
+
+  originalStream.destroy(thrownError);
+
+  await nextTick();
+  strictEqual(unrefStream.destroyed, true);
+  strictEqual(originalStream.destroyed, true);
+
+  await nextTick();
+  strictEqual(emittedError, thrownError);
+});
+
+it('Should not close original stream when unref one finished but not consumed all data', async () => {
+  const originalStream = from([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]);
+
+  const unrefStream = unref(originalStream);
+
+  // eslint-disable-next-line no-unused-vars
+  for await (const _ of unrefStream) {
+    break;
+  }
+
+  await nextTick();
+  strictEqual(unrefStream.destroyed, true);
+  strictEqual(originalStream.destroyed, false);
+});
+
+it('Should continue consuming the original stream data from where the unref stopped', async () => {
+  const originalStream = from([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]);
+
+  const firstItem = await unref(originalStream).take(1).toArray();
+  deepStrictEqual(firstItem, [1]);
+
+  const restOfData = await originalStream.toArray();
+  deepStrictEqual(restOfData, [2, 3, 4, 5]);
+});
+
+it('Should close original stream when unref one consume all data', async () => {
+  const originalStream = from([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]);
+
+  const unrefStream = unref(originalStream);
+
+  const data = await unrefStream.toArray();
+  deepStrictEqual(data, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]);
+
+  await nextTick();
+
+  strictEqual(unrefStream.destroyed, true);
+  strictEqual(originalStream.destroyed, true);
+});
+
+it('original stream close should close unref one', async () => {
+  const originalStream = from([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]);
+  const unrefStream = unref(originalStream);
+
+  await originalStream.toArray();
+
+  strictEqual(originalStream.destroyed, true);
+  strictEqual(unrefStream.destroyed, true);
+});
+
+it('make sure not leaking memory', async () => {
+  function getMemoryAllocatedInMB() {
+    return Math.round(process.memoryUsage().rss / 1024 / 1024 * 100) / 100;
+  }
+
+  const bigData = () => from(async function* () {
+    const obj = Array.from({ length: 100000 }, () => (Array.from({ length: 15 }, (_, i) => i)));
+    while (true) {
+      yield obj.map((item) => item.slice(0));
+      await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 1));
+    }
+  }());
+
+  const originalStream = pipeline(bigData(), new PassThrough({ objectMode: true }), () => {
+  });
+  unref(originalStream);
+  originalStream.iterator({ destroyOnReturn: true });
+
+  // Making sure some data passed so we won't catch something that is related to the infra
+  const iterator = originalStream.iterator({ destroyOnReturn: true });
+  for (let j = 0; j < 10; j++) {
+    await iterator.next();
+  }
+
+  const currentMemory = getMemoryAllocatedInMB();
+
+  for (let j = 0; j < 10; j++) {
+    await iterator.next();
+  }
+
+  const newMemory = getMemoryAllocatedInMB();
+
+  originalStream.destroy(null);
+  strictEqual(newMemory - currentMemory < 100, true, `After consuming 10 items the memory increased by ${Math.floor(newMemory - currentMemory)}MB`);
+});