{"id":2201,"date":"2026-04-17T13:29:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/2201\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:29:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:29:40","slug":"poland-shuts-russian-consulate-in-krakow-over-shopping-mall-arson-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/2201\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland shuts Russian consulate in Krakow over shopping mall arson \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sikorski, speaking as he arrived to a meeting of the Weimar-Plus group of ministers in London to discuss the Russia-Ukraine war, said: \u201cAn hour ago, I took the decision to close down the Russian consulate in Krakow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is because our justice ministry and security services have found proof that they were behind an act of arson in Poland a year ago. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a huge fire of a shopping mall in Warsaw in which, just by sheer luck, nobody was hurt. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is completely unacceptable, so the Russian consulate will have to leave. They will have one more, and if these attacks continue, we\u2019ll take further action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>European countries, particularly those in the east of the bloc, have been plagued by Russian espionage in recent years. Arson attacks are another common tool used as part of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russia-berlin-fire-diehl-behind-arson-attack-on-factory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russia\u2019s hybrid warfare strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian government on Monday vowed to respond to Poland\u2019s move to shutter the consulate in Krakow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWarsaw deliberately seeks to ruin the relations, by acting against its citizens. An appropriate response to these inadequate steps will follow soon,\u201d Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told state-owned news agency TASS.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Stanley-Smith contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sikorski, speaking as he arrived to a meeting of the Weimar-Plus group of ministers in London to discuss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,934,56,9,367,126,368,369,715],"class_list":["post-2201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-krakow","tag-donald-tusk","tag-espionage","tag-krakow","tag-poland","tag-radoslaw-sikorski","tag-russia","tag-security","tag-services","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201","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=2201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/poland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}