Russia threatens Poland after ‘killing 80 foreign fighters’ amid NATO calls for reinforcements to stop Vlad’s army

Russia has threatened Poland after claiming it “killed 80 foreign fighters” amid NATO calls for reinforcements.

The warning comes amid heightened tensions with the NATO member state after Moscow announced it had removed the Polish flag from a memorial commemorating the killing of thousands of Poles in the Soviet Union.

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The Russian Defense Ministry said its troops destroyed “up to 80” Polish warplanes in “precision strikes” in the eastern Donetsk region.

It said in a statement: “Up to 80 Polish mercenaries, 20 armored combat vehicles and eight multi-purpose Grad missile launchers were destroyed in precision airstrikes on the Megatex zinc plant in Constantinevka”.

And the mayor of the city of Smolensk, where the Polish flag was removed, Andrei Borisov, confirmed the saying: “Polish flags cannot be on Russian monuments.

“Even less after the outspoken anti-Russian comments by Polish political leaders.

“The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation made the right decision to remove the Polish flag. Katyn is a memorial to Russia.”

Meanwhile, tensions between Russia and the West have reached a boiling point after Lithuania announced that it would ban sanctioned goods from the Russian mainland through its territory to Kaliningrad.

Therefore, Poland appealed to Nato to reserve in the Suwalki Gap, the strip of land that separates Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave from Belarus.

Speaking at a news conference in Brussels, the country’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said: “We will seek reinforcement of this corridor … in our negotiations with our partners from NATO. “.

Taking place last week, Lithuanian authorities announced that EU-sanctioned goods would not be able to pass through its territory to Kaliningrad.

Blocked materials include coal, metal and advanced technology.

Kaliningrad region governor Anton Alikhanov said the ban would affect half of the goods destined for the tiny territory.

Stefan Bilas, who lives in the local village of Rudziszki, says he can sometimes hear Russian.

He told the Guardian: “I think about it every day.

“They can come at any time. Kill us in our bed.

“What do I think of them? I better not say.”

Poland, a member of NATO and the European Union, has enthusiastically supported Ukraine diplomatically and by supplying Ukraine with weapons.

The country is also home to the largest number of Ukrainian refugees in the bloc – more than 1.1 million according to the latest United Nations figures.

The Katyn Monument was erected in memory of the 25,000 Poles, most of them military officers considered anti-communist, who were massacred by Soviet political police in a forest near Smolensk in 1940 on the orders of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin.

The Soviet Union had long denied responsibility for the murders, accusing the crimes of Nazi Germany, before admitting the truth in 1990.

The episode poisoned relations between Russia and Poland.

In 2010, a Smolensk airliner carrying the Polish president crashed, killing 96 passengers. The investigation into the incident became another source of tension after the countries tried to improve their relations.

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