Russian ambassador, urgently summoned to the MFA in Warsaw, after Vladimir Putin's provocative statements
The Russian ambassador to Poland, Serghei Andreev, was urgently summoned to the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, after the statements made on Friday by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, qualified by Warsaw as "provocative".
The Kremlin leader accused Poland of having territorial ambitions in the former Soviet Union and said any aggression against Moscow's neighbor and close ally, Belarus, would be seen as aggression against Russia.
Vladimir Putin mentioned, among other things, during a meeting of the National Security Council, that the western regions of present-day Poland were a "gift from Stalin" given to the Poles after the Second World War.
The summoning of the Russian ambassador is a result of "provocative statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as threats and other unfriendly actions of the Russian Federation towards Poland and our allies," Polish Deputy Minister Pawel Jablonski said.
