Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski warned that Moscow may be preparing a staged provocation on Russian territory to justify further escalation, drawing a historical parallel to Nazi Germany’s 1939 pretext for invading Poland. In a post on X, Sikorski reacted to recent threats from the Kremlin, saying Russia’s latest rhetoric could be laying the groundwork for a false-flag operation by Russian special services.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. “This sounds like an announcement of a provocation. I expect an attack on Russian territory under a false flag, to which Putin will ‘respond,’” Sikorski wrote. He compared the situation to the 1939 Gleiwitz incident, when Nazi Germany staged a fake Polish attack on a radio station near the German-Polish border to justify launching World War II. “I remind you that in August 1939, the Abwehr staged a ‘Polish’ attack on a radio station in Gleiwitz in order to give itself a pretext for war,” the Polish minister added. Concern in Warsaw followed remarks by Vladimir Putin during a speech to military academy graduates. “Now the West openly declares that it is preparing for war with us, increasing military and offensive budgets. To justify such spending and the radical militarization of their states, NATO and EU leaders continue to rely on false claims about an alleged Russian military threat,” Putin said.