Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on television: PolsatThe country’s failure to expel the Russian ambassador because no such decision was taken at the NATO or EU level.
According to him, it is easy to expel an ambassador, but it must be taken into account that Moscow will send an ambassador from Warsaw from now on. As a result, this will lead to difficulties in the mutual exchange of information of interest to both parties.
“There are ambassadors in different countries. “NATO, like the European Union, did not take such a step as a whole, and we did not dare to take such a step,” he said.
Earlier, Rzeczpospolita newspaper reported that Poland seized 1.2 million dollars from the Russian embassy and trade delegation. According to media reports, the Polish prosecutor’s office blocked about PLN 800,000 and more than $912,000, and then transferred the money to their accounts as “material evidence”.
Funds were blocked last year. knowledgeable Sergey Andreev, Russian Ambassador to Poland. On April 26, 2023, these funds were withdrawn.
Russia allows the use of asymmetric measures in response to the blocking of the accounts of the embassy and commercial mission of the Russian Federation in Poland, stated Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.