(Warsaw) The Russian ambassador to Poland ignored the official summons on Monday following the violation of Polish airspace by a Russian missile, deeming it “absurd” to discuss it for lack of “evidence”.
The Polish army warned on Sunday that a Russian cruise missile launched against towns in western Ukraine had violated Polish airspace for around forty seconds, stressing that the projectile was observed by radars military personnel throughout the flight.
“Sergei Andreyev did not appear today at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to explain the incident of the Russian cruise missile which violated Polish airspace on March 24,” announced Monday to the Press Pawel Wronski, the ministry’s spokesperson.
“We wonder whether the ambassador (thus) follows the instructions of the Foreign Ministry in Moscow and whether he is able to correctly represent the interests of the Russian Federation in Warsaw,” Wronski said.
And to assure that the diplomatic note demanding these explanations “will be transmitted to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs by another channel”.
Asked about the reasons for his absence, Mr. Andreyev told the Russian state agency Ria Novosti that he had “not received a clear answer” to his question whether Poland “intends to provide us with evidence of these allegations.
“I considered it absurd to discuss this subject without providing evidence and refused to go to the Polish Foreign Ministry,” he explained.
According to him, Moscow was still waiting for Polish evidence regarding “the fact that an alleged Russian cruise missile entered Polish airspace on December 29 last year.”
Poland reported in December that a Russian missile had entered its airspace before leaving it a few minutes later, heading towards Ukraine.
A year earlier, in December 2022, another Russian KH-55 cruise missile, capable of carrying nuclear warheads, fell in Poland, but its remains were only found in April 2023 by a passerby in a forest near Bydgoszcz in the north, about 500 km from the eastern border of this NATO member country.