LONDON (Reuters) – Russia’s director of international espionage on Thursday accused the United States and Poland of conspiracy to obtain a sphere of influence in Ukraine, an allegation that Warsaw dismissed as disinformation aimed at creating distrust among Kyiv supporters.
Sergei Naryshkin, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), cited unreleased intelligence that he said showed NATO allies the United States and Poland were planning to retake Polish control over the West from Ukraine.
“According to intelligence information received by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Washington and Warsaw are working on plans to establish Polish political and military control over its historic properties in Ukraine,” Naryshkin said in a rare statement released by the SVR. Said.
Poland denied the allegation and said it was disinformation spread by Moscow.
“The lies about Poland’s plans to attack western Ukraine have been repeated for years,” said Stanislaw Zaryn, spokesman for Poland’s special services coordination.
“The purpose of Russian propaganda is to fuel distrust between Ukraine and Poland, to undermine cooperation between the two countries.”
At different times in the past, most recently between the two world wars, Poland ruled over parts of what is now Ukraine. Western Ukraine, including the city of Lviv, World War II. It was incorporated into the Soviet Union at the end of World War II.
source: Noticias
