The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that Poland will face consequences for seizing a school operated by the Russian embassy in Warsaw.
“The Polish authorities’ intrusion into the Russian embassy’s school in Warsaw won’t be left without Moscow’s firm response and consequences for Poland, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
‘Such a brazen step by Warsaw that goes beyond civilized inter-state relations won’t be left without our firm response and consequences for the Polish authorities and Poland’s interests in Russia. The initiators of such contradictory and inflammatory ideas must be aware of that’, the ministry said in the wake of the Russian embassy school’s seizure in Warsaw.
Russia deems the Polish authorities’ intrusion into the Russian embassy school in Warsaw as a violation of the 1961 Vienna Convention, the ministry said.
‘We deem these new hostile actions by the Polish authorities as a flagrant violation of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and a new encroachment on the Russian diplomatic property in Poland’, the statement reads.
Adviser-councilor at the Russian embassy in Poland Andrey Ordash told TASS earlier that the Polish authorities had demanded that the staff of the Russian school at the embassy in Warsaw vacate the building. He said that there were 29 people, including children in the school.
The Russian councilor added that the Polish authorities allowed the embassy staff ‘to take out equipment within a week’". -TASS
Moscow's ambassador to Poland stated that Polish prosecutors had seized significant amounts of money from the frozen bank accounts of the Russian embassy and trade mission only earlier in the week.
The funds in question were supposedly held in both U.S. dollars and Polish zlotys.
Warsaw blocked the accounts in March of 2022 on the basis that they could be used for money laundering or terrorist finance.
Not only has Poland committed a clear violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, but Warsaw has ill-advisedly positioned itself as one of Kiev's staunchest allies as it has played a leading role in persuading allies to provide it with heavy weaponry.
In response, the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation released a foreboding statement that as long as Poland is under the rule of Russophobes, there’s no need for Moscow to continue diplomatic relations with Warsaw.
“This state should not exist for us as long as there are only Russophobes in power, and Ukraine is full of Polish mercenaries who must be exterminated without mercy like stinking rats”, Medvedev wrote.