Recent years have seen many Ukrainians recruited by Russia to carry out acts of sabotage in Poland.
Recent years have seen many Ukrainians recruited by Russia to carry out acts of sabotage in Poland.
The claims echo Vladimir Putin’s longstanding revisionist narrative about the war.
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“This is a confrontation that Russia has declared against the entire free world,” says Donald Tusk.
“This is the first time Russian drones have been shot down over the territory of a NATO country,” notes Donald Tusk.
Border crossings will close at the end of Thursday, ahead of the exercises beginning on Friday.
Warsaw says claims the man was carrying out espionage are “absurd”.
Both objects were closely monitored and left Polish territory without causing any damage.
Ursula von der Leyen emphasised the “urgency” of protecting the EU’s frontier from the “predator” Vladimir Putin.
The EU holds around €210 billion of frozen Russian sovereign assets, the bulk of them in Belgium.
“It’s yet another violation of our airspace from the East,” said Poland’s foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski.
The 27-year-old is accused of filming, photographing and gathering information on a warehouse in Lublin province.
“These actions were intended to incite tensions between Poles and Ukrainians.”
The group, made up of three Poles and three Belarusians, is accused of setting fire to two buildings.
The 27-year-old man, who was last month convicted of arson in the Czech Republic, could face up to life imprisonment.