Poland closes the Russian Consulate in Krakow: They have planted a fire!

In anyway, tense relationships between Warsaw and Moscow reached new levels of Russian invasion in Ukraine in 2022. Poland claims that the role of one of the most important supports Kiev made it a target of Russian sabotage, cyber attacks and disinformation campaigns, which Moscow denies.

On Sunday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that Poland « for sure » knows that the Russian secret services are behind the big fire on Marywilk Street in the capital.

« Due to the evidence that Russian special services have committed an unacceptable act of sabotage over a shopping mall in Marywil Street, I decided to withdraw my consent to the work of the Consulate of the Russian Federation in Krakow, » the Fore Slaw Sikorski Minister wrote on XU.

The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that Poland was deliberately interrupting ties with Moscow, the RIA news agency reported.

« Warsaw still deliberately destroys relations, acting against the interests of their citizens, » the State news agency Ria spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Marija Zahar’s. She added that Russia would soon give an « adequate answer ».

In October, Poland announced that she would close the Russian consulate in Poznan on suspicion of Russian sabotage attempts. Russia closed the Polish Consulate in St. Petersburg in response.

In addition to Krakow and Poznan, Russia has a consulate in Gdansk and the Warsaw Embassy.

In March, Lithuanian prosecutors accused the Russian military intelligence service for orchestration of fire from the IKEA trade in Vilnius, which broke out three days before the fire at a shopping center in neighboring Poland.

Russia denies the involvement in the fire.