The 46-year-old man, a resident of Poland, denies any wrongdoing.
The 46-year-old man, a resident of Poland, denies any wrongdoing.
Europe has “descended into an ideological frenzy” of allowing mass migration and “green madness”, said Karol Nawrocki.
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The “Polish Operation” of 1937-38 was an ethnic cleansing action against Poles in the Soviet Union during which over 100,000 were sentenced to death.
There have been 19,000 attempted crossings from Belarus to Poland already this year, more than the 16,000 recorded in the whole of 2022.
Poland called on Minsk to “urgently explain the incident” and “put an end to any provocations” alongside its border.
“The Russians are testing the reactions of Poland and our allies in this way,” says Mateusz Morawiecki.
A senior figure in Poland’s ruling party has suggested that Kyiv’s actions make it “much more difficult for Poland to continue to support Ukraine”.
The comments are “opportunistic”, “manipulative” and “treacherous”, says an aide to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The Council of Europe’s experts found the law to be “fundamentally flawed” and a threat to this year’s elections.
Putin also repeated unsubstantiated claims that Poland is planning to take territory from Ukraine.
Poland says it is monitoring the situation but that there is no need for “panic”.
Poland says the decision was part of Russia’s efforts to “falsify history and deny responsibility for crimes committed by the Russian state”.
The heads of Poland’s Catholic Church and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church signed a joint declaration on the Volhynia massacres.
The two countries are also hoping to establish a maintenance hub in Poland for repairing German-made Leopard tanks damaged in Ukraine.