Overview
- Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski announced the Gdansk consulate closure, which will leave only Russia’s embassy in Warsaw operating in Poland.
- Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the weekend railway explosion an unprecedented act of sabotage and said Russian secret services commissioned it.
- Tusk said two recruited Ukrainian suspects carried out the blast and fled to Belarus, adding that their identities are known but not being disclosed during the investigation.
- The Kremlin said relations with Poland have completely deteriorated and denounced the closure as an expression of Russophobia.
- Russia signaled it will curb Poland’s diplomatic presence in response, following earlier tit-for-tat consulate shutdowns by both countries.