Russia won’t invade Poland? “No credibility,” says Warsaw

Relations between Poland and Russia have been strained for a very long time, however they’ve been exacerbated by Warsaw’s help of Kyiv’s efforts to repel the Russian invasion.

In an interview with US journalist Tucker Carlson printed on Thursday, V. Putin asserted that “there will be no query” of a Russian invasion of Poland or Latvia.

“We’ve got no pursuits in Poland, Latvia or wherever else. Why ought to we do that? We simply don’t have any curiosity. That is simply spreading panic,” V. Putin stated.

When requested regarding V. Putin’s statements, Polish Protection Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz stated that the Russian president’s phrases are utterly unreliable.

“Nothing might make us lose our vigilance … and positively not such phrases, simply the alternative,” W. Kosiniak-Kamysza informed reporters on Friday.

Poland, a NATO and EU member, shares an extended border with Russia’s ally Belarus and the Kaliningrad area, a closely armed Russian exclave.

“The extra typically somebody repeats that one thing will not be deliberate, the extra suspicious you need to be, particularly these phrases,” stated W. Kosiniak-Kamysz, who can be Poland’s deputy prime minister.

In a two-hour interview with Carlson, a former host of the right-wing Fox Information community, Putin additionally stated that Nazi Germany’s 1939 invasion of Poland, which began World Battle II, was as a result of Warsaw , in keeping with him, was non-negotiable.

This assertion of his obtained a pointy rebuke from Polish Overseas Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, who known as V. Putin a Russian dictator.

“We’re used to paranoid justifications for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022,” R. Sikorski wrote on social networks.

“It is stunning that this time it was an American journalist who gave them the chance to say it,” he added.