Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski’s remark that he personally considers the idea of establishing a no-fly zone over Ukraine worth discussing sparked a sharp reaction from Russian Senator Vladimir Dzhabarov.
The first deputy chair of the Federation Council’s Committee on Foreign Affairs threatened Poland with aggression and a new partition, writing on his Telegram channel.
According to the lawmaker, Sikorski “has once again drawn attention with his brazenness.”
“A NATO-enforced no-fly zone over Ukraine, which he is talking about, is a very complex and dangerous issue. Who will enforce it? NATO countries themselves?” Dzhabarov wrote.
He called Sikorski one of the chief ideologues of confrontation with Russia, recalling the minister’s past comments about sending Polish troops to Ukraine as well as an interview with the weekly Polityka, in which Sikorski said that as a result of the current conflict, Belarus should leave the Union State and enter Warsaw’s sphere of influence. That, he argued, would help Poland boost its clout in Eastern Europe and become a new European center.
The senator stressed that Poland has “always been an unfriendly country toward Russia and Belarus.”
“And now, because of their Russophobia, certain Polish politicians have completely lost their fear. They’re stepping on the same rake again. If Poland continues to ‘look East,’ accusing it of all sorts of threats to Polish statehood, it is not out of the question that it will once again experience a partition, as has happened more than once in its history,” the official warned.
The three partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth took place in 1772, 1793 and 1795 among the Russian, Austrian and later Prussian empires. As a result, the Commonwealth ceased to exist as a state until the early 20th century.
Earlier, Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, also spoke out against a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
“Implementing the provocative idea of Kyiv and other mor*ns to create a ‘no-fly zone over Ukraine’ and allowing NATO countries to shoot down our UAVs will mean only one thing — a NATO war with Russia. We should call things by their proper names!”
His comments have already had an impact. For example, Romanian President Nicusor Dan said his country “rather” does not support creating a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
