WARSAW: Poland’s defence minister mentioned Friday that Russian chief Vladimir Putin had “zero credibility” regardless of denying any intent to invade Poland amid Moscow’s two-year assault on neighbouring Ukraine.
Tensions have lengthy been strained between Poland and Russia however deteriorated additional after Warsaw threw its weight behind Kyiv in its efforts to struggle off Russia’s invasion.
In an interview launched Thursday with US journalist Tucker Carlson, Putin mentioned it was “out of the query” for Russia to invade Poland or Latvia.
“We now have no real interest in Poland, Latvia or anyplace else. Why would we do this? We merely haven’t any curiosity. It is simply menace mongering,” Putin mentioned.
Requested about Putin’s feedback, Polish Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz mentioned there was “zero credibility” to Putin’s declare.
“Nothing could make us let down our guard… and such phrases definitely don’t trigger this, quite the opposite,” Kosiniak-Kamysz advised reporters on Friday.
Poland, a Nato and EU member, shares an intensive border with Russia’s ally Belarus and with Kaliningrad, the closely armed Russian exclave.
“The extra somebody repeats that one thing just isn’t deliberate, the extra suspicious you have to be, particularly with such phrases,” mentioned 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 mentioned that Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939, which marked the beginning of World Battle II, was on account of Warsaw being “intractable”.
The declare drew a pointy rebuke from Poland’s overseas minister Radoslaw Sikorski, who branded Putin a “Russian dictator”.
“We’re used to paranoid justifications for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022,” Sikorski mentioned on social media.
“What’s stunning is that this time they’re enabled by an American journalist,” Sikorski mentioned.
Tensions have lengthy been strained between Poland and Russia however deteriorated additional after Warsaw threw its weight behind Kyiv in its efforts to struggle off Russia’s invasion.
In an interview launched Thursday with US journalist Tucker Carlson, Putin mentioned it was “out of the query” for Russia to invade Poland or Latvia.
“We now have no real interest in Poland, Latvia or anyplace else. Why would we do this? We merely haven’t any curiosity. It is simply menace mongering,” Putin mentioned.
Requested about Putin’s feedback, Polish Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz mentioned there was “zero credibility” to Putin’s declare.
“Nothing could make us let down our guard… and such phrases definitely don’t trigger this, quite the opposite,” Kosiniak-Kamysz advised reporters on Friday.
Poland, a Nato and EU member, shares an intensive border with Russia’s ally Belarus and with Kaliningrad, the closely armed Russian exclave.
“The extra somebody repeats that one thing just isn’t deliberate, the extra suspicious you have to be, particularly with such phrases,” mentioned 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 mentioned that Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939, which marked the beginning of World Battle II, was on account of Warsaw being “intractable”.
The declare drew a pointy rebuke from Poland’s overseas minister Radoslaw Sikorski, who branded Putin a “Russian dictator”.
“We’re used to paranoid justifications for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022,” Sikorski mentioned on social media.
“What’s stunning is that this time they’re enabled by an American journalist,” Sikorski mentioned.
