Poland summons Russian ambassador for threats against Polish diplomat

The Russian Ambassador to Poland, Sergei Andreyev, was summoned to the Polish Foreign Ministry in Warsaw on Friday, where he was given an official note of protest against the death threats made against the Polish Ambassador to Moscow by a former Russian official.

As Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Lukasz Jasina reported to the media on Friday, Andreyev received a letter condemning the statements of a former Russian government official who threatened to kill the Polish ambassador in Moscow, Krzysztof Krajewski.

A few days ago, the city council of Warsaw expropriated a property which housed a secondary school for Russian citizens dependent on the Russian embassy in the Polish capital and which, according to the mayor of Warsaw, Rafal Trzaskowski, had already received a evacuation order in 2016. .

After the incident, which the Kremlin described as “an act that goes beyond civilized communication between nations”, former Russian ombudsman for minors Pavel Astakov said he was waiting “to see if they find the body of the Polish ambassador floating on the Moskva river.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki assured the next day that “we must not believe Russia’s threats, but take them seriously”.

Furthermore, the charge d’affaires of the Polish Embassy in Moscow, Jacek Sladewski, was summoned last Tuesday to the Russian Foreign Ministry, where he was informed of Russia’s condemnation of the expropriation of the Warsaw school. The Kremlin spokesman, Dimitri Peskov, evoked the same day the “not good” prospects for relations between Russia and Poland and accused the Polish government of “being plagued by Russophobia”. (Eph)