Polish authorities accused Sunday Russian Intelligence Services To orchestrate a fire that destroyed a large shopping center last year in the capital, Warsaw.
From the February Russian offensive, 2022 against UkrainePoland, faithful ally of kyiv, claims to be White of sabotage attempts attributed to Russia.
In May 2024, a fire completely destroyed a large shopping center in Warsaw and the 1400 small businesses that housed, the majority owned by members of the Vietnamese community.
The authorities immediately initiated an investigation, but until now they had refrained from blaming Moscow.
“Now we know with certainty that the great fire of the Marywilska shopping center In Warsovia it was caused by Russian special services, ”said Polish Prime minister, Donald TuskSunday.
The Ministries of Justice and Interior declared Sunday in a joint statement separately that some of the alleged authors were already detained, while others had been identified, but were still fugitives.
“His actions were organized and directed by a specific person resident in the Federation Russian“Both ministries said, adding that they were cooperating with Lithuania,” where some of the authors also carried out acts of diversion of funds. “
From the Russian Ukraine InvasionPoland has arrested and condemned several suspicious people of sabotage on behalf of Russian intelligence services, accused of aggressions, fires or fire attempts.
In May 2024, Poland imposed restrictions on the circulation of Russian diplomats In its territory, due to Moscow’s “participation” in a “hybrid war.”
Five months later, Warsovia ordered the closure of the Russian consulate in Poznan, in western Poland, accusing Moscow to orchestrate “sabotage attempts.”
In December, Polish diplomacy was willing to close all Russian consulates in Poland if the acts of “terrorism” continued.
Russia closed the Polish consulate in January St. Petersburg as retaliation.
Poland, which limits with Ukraine and is a member of NATO and the European Union, is one of the main countries through which Western nations supply kyiv weapons and ammunition to help Ukraine to fight Russian troops.
On Thursday, the Minister of Defense of Poland, Wladislaw Kosiniak Kamiszagain ruled out the country’s participation in a hypothetical peace mission in Ukraine and bluntly rejected the “speculations” poured during the last days in this regard.
“The idea that the military military will be sent to Ukraine is a gross manipulation, an attempt to spread lies and misinformation,” he said in statements to the Polish press.
Thus, he explained that the discussions on this matter can only be about the idea that members of the Polish forces move to Ukrainian territory as part of the security device in the event that high positions of the Government visit Ukraine and especially kyiv, the capital.
“In these cases, military personnel can be involved,” he said, while emphasizing that Warsaw “does not participate or participate in any peace mission in Ukraine.” “The Government, the president and the prime minister have made it clear: we are not going to send troops,” he added.
