Overview
- Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski revoked the operating permission for Russia’s general consulate in Gdańsk on November 20.
- The closure eliminates Russia’s consular posts in Poland outside its embassy in Warsaw.
- Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova condemned the decision and promised a reciprocal move that would significantly limit Poland’s presence in Russia.
- The step follows earlier Polish closures of Russian consulates in Poznań (October 2024) and Kraków (May 2025), after which Russia shut Polish consulates in Saint Petersburg and Kaliningrad.
- Poland currently maintains an embassy in Moscow and a general consulate in Irkutsk, while a Polish nationalist party criticized the new closure as escalating risk for Poles in Russia.