Polish Foreign Minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski said Wednesday that Russia could be preparing a false\u2011flag operation, following President Vladimir Putin\u2019s threat of retaliation against European countries he alleged were involved in drone attacks on Russian territory. Putin said Russia would respond if drones were launched against Russian targets from European countries. \u201cThey understand that retaliation will follow. I think everyone understands this, or should understand it,\u201d Putin said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Historical parallel<\/p>\n
Sikorski responded by drawing a parallel with one of the most notorious false\u2011flag operations in European history. \u201cThis sounds like an announcement of a provocation. I expect an attack on Russian territory under a false flag, to which Putin will then respond,\u201d Sikorski wrote on X. \u201cI would remind you that in August 1939 the Abwehr staged a Polish attack on the radio station in Gleiwitz in order to create a pretext for war,\u201d he added. The Gleiwitz incident was a Nazi German operation in which German agents posed as Polish attackers, later used by Hitler to justify the invasion of Poland.<\/p>\n
Growing fears of escalation<\/p>\n
Warsaw has repeatedly warned about the possibility of Russian sabotage, hybrid warfare, and disinformation operations targeting NATO countries. The exchange underscores growing fears that the confrontation between Russia and the West could intensify further as the war in Ukraine enters its fifth year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polish Foreign Minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski said Wednesday that Russia could be preparing a false\u2011flag operation, following President Vladimir…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9609,9,2083,126,9507],"class_list":["post-13815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-poland","tag-falseflag","tag-poland","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-sikorski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}