Poland orders closure of Russian consulate over sabotage attack
Radoslaw Sikorski, the Polish foreign minister, wrote on X: 'In light of evidence that Russian special services carried out a reprehensible act of sabotage against the shopping centre on Marywilska Street, I have decided to withdraw consent for the operation of the consulate of the Russian Federation in Krakow.'
On Sunday Donald Tusk, the prime minister, announced on X that the authorities 'now know for sure that the great fire of the Marywilska shopping centre in Warsaw was caused by arson ordered by the Russian special services'.
The fire in May last year damaged about
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