Poland’s Foreign Ministry has put out an official statement rejecting Vladimir Putin’s claims about imperial ambitions among Russia’s neighbors, and his talk of dividing up Ukraine with Poland’s help.
The trigger was a recent public speech in which Putin said that sooner or later “Ukraine will lose western lands” to Poland, Hungary and Romania.
Warsaw called the remarks disinformation. The ministry described them as one more attempt to turn Ukrainians against the people who back Kyiv. Poland, it said, has not raised any territorial claims against Ukraine, is not raising any now and does not intend to raise any in the future.
Borders Poland says it respects
The ministry spelled out its position on the border question. “Poland fully recognises, respects and unwaveringly supports Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty within its legally established and internationally recognised borders,” it said, pointing in particular to those set by the 2003 treaty on the state border between Ukraine and the Russian Federation.
It called the spreading of such narratives a primitive piece of disinformation and a constant feature of information warfare. In its words, “the aim of these actions is obvious”: to sow discord among European peoples and to pull the international community’s attention away from Russia’s aggression. The ministry called on Russia to stop making territorial claims against its neighbors.
