Poland PM Tusk accuses Russia of planning acts of terror towards ’airways over the world’

Polish PM Donald Tusk and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky (not pictured) attend a press convention on the Chancellery of the Prime Minister in Warsaw, Poland, on January 15, 2025.
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk accused Russia on Wednesday (January 15, 2025) of planning acts of sabotage worldwide that included “acts of air terror” towards airways.

Mr. Tusk spoke at a information convention in Warsaw alongside Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky.

“I cannot go into particulars, I can solely affirm the validity of fears that Russia was planning acts of air terror, not solely towards Poland, however towards airways world wide,” Mr. Tusk mentioned.

The Kremlin has dismissed earlier Western claims that Russia sponsored acts of sabotage and assaults in Europe.

Western safety officers suspect Russian intelligence was behind a plot to place incendiary gadgets in packages on cargo planes headed to North America, together with one which caught hearth at a courier hub in Germany and one other that ignited in a warehouse in England final yr.

The professional-European Union authorities in Warsaw says that Russia is pursuing acts of hybrid struggle towards Poland and different Western international locations in retaliation for his or her assist for Poland’s neighbor Ukraine in its wrestle towards Russia’s full-scale invasion.

The federal government has accused Russia, and its ally Belarus, of fomenting a migration disaster on the EU’s japanese border with Belarus with a view to create chaos and division within the EU.

Final yr, Poland’s international minister ordered the closure of certainly one of three Russian consulates within the nation in response to acts of sabotage, together with arson assaults that he mentioned had been sponsored by Moscow.