Sergey Naryshkin, director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), said that Poland is preparing intensively for “the annexation of the territory of Western Ukraine: Lviv, the territory of Ivano-Frankivsk and most of the Ternopil region of Ukraine”. Based on data from RIA Novosti, its special services.
According to Naryshkin, Polish President Andrzej Duda instructed the relevant services to immediately prepare a justification for Warsaw’s claims against Western Ukraine.
The head of Russian intelligence added that the 1943 Volyn massacre was the starting point for the SVR’s archival research.
“To ensure the legitimate nature of the planned land acquisitions, the Polish leadership decided to use the successful experience of Russia in returning ancestral lands by holding referendums on these lands,” Naryshkin said.
This is far from the first time that the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, talked about the partition of Ukraine by Poland. He’s done this several times over the past few months.
HORSE April He argued that Warsaw and Washington had developed a plan to establish military-political control over Poland’s “historical possessions” in Ukraine.
According to Russian intelligence, to which the head of intelligence refers, the first point of the plan will be the entry of the Polish army into Western Ukraine under the pretext of “protection against Russian aggression.” According to Naryshkin, the task will take place “without NATO mandate, but with the participation of ‘willing states'”.
“According to the calculations of the Polish administration, preemptive consolidation in the west of Ukraine will most likely lead to division in the country. At the same time, the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service said that Warsaw would be put under control of areas that would essentially contain “Polish peacekeepers”.
HORSE June Naryshkin said that the president of Ukraine has agreed to the transfer of the sovereignty of the country to Poland. According to him, the Poles “strongly push the Zelensky regime to transfer de facto control over the most important state functions and institutions to them.”
HORSE July Naryshkin said that Poland is already ready to cooperate with Hungary and Romania on Ukrainian territory, “covering up its plans to seize Western Ukraine.”
“It is becoming increasingly clear that we are talking not only about the possibility of introducing “Polish peacekeeping forces” in the western parts of this country, but also about establishing control over the most promising sectors of the economy of the neighboring state. SVR press office said in a statement.
What did Vladimir Putin say?
President Putin also spoke about Poland and Ukraine in the fall, during a speech at an event to mark the tenth anniversary of the re-establishment of the Russian Historical and Russian Military History Societies.
“But almost no one knows about it, it only exists in archival documents. Just like – not definitively, definitely, but definitely already – they even talk about it: the idea of returning the territories torn from Poland,” he said.
Putin expressed the view that “part of Poland’s political beau monde” dreams of creating a great state from the Baltic to the Black “from sea to sea”. According to him, especially Warsaw wants to return the lands of Western Ukraine seized in 1939.
Putin argues that only Russia can act as the guarantor of Ukraine’s sovereignty. “In this sense, of course, Ukraine was shaped as an artificial state. Moreover, after the Second World War – this is also a historical fact – Stalin took a number of Polish territories, a number of Hungarians, a number of Romanian lands and handed them over to Ukraine and took their lands from these countries, ”the Russian President said in his speech .
What do they say in Poland itself?
Politics Strana Telegram channel wrote that Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Lukasz Jasina was reporting disinformation about “the annexation of Western Ukraine to Poland”. According to the Polish politician, this is “another attempt to provoke disagreements between Poland and Ukraine”.
There were also comments about the Volyn massacre – in the summer Polish President Andrzej Duda said that Warsaw would not take revenge on Kiev for the Volyn massacre or give Kiev “some kind of answer”.
“The facts about the Volhynia massacre, this genocide must be clearly stated,” said Duda.
He added that this issue requires “a precise statement of the truth”: “It is difficult for Ukrainians because it is so embarrassing. Like this? Of course they killed it. But it’s true”.
The President of Poland recalled that there was not a single Polish who would not have heard of the Volyn massacre, but that the inhabitants of the country “underlined the Ukrainians and extended a helping hand”.
Source: Gazeta
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