WARSAW: Poland said Wednesday it would close the Russian consulate in the northern port city of Gdansk, after accusing Moscow of orchestrating the sabotage of a train line earlier this week.
Poland had already shut other consulates outside Warsaw, and the move would leave the Russian embassy in the capital as Moscow’s only diplomatic mission in the country.
“I have decided to withdraw consent for the operation of the Russian consulate in Gdansk,” Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told journalists on Wednesday.
Polish officials accused Russia of sending two Ukrainians to sabotage part of the Lublin-Warsaw train line, resulting in damage to the tracks.
Sikorski dubbed it an “act of state terror” but the Kremlin denied the allegations and accused Poland of “Russophobia.”
