The director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service believes that Warsaw sees Kiev's military defeat as a condition for thisMINSK, April 4.
/tass/. The Polish leadership does not abandon the idea of gaining control over the western part of Ukraine, a condition for which Warsaw sees the military defeat of Kiev. This was announced on Tuesday after a meeting with the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko by the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of Russia Sergey Naryshkin.
"Gaining control over the western territories of modern Ukraine, the so-called former eastern territories, Poland is the coveted dream of Polish nationalists. And this becomes an element of the national ideology, so the Polish leadership can no longer abandon this idea. The Polish leadership believes that the condition for the implementation of this idea is the collapse of Ukrainian statehood as a result of military defeat," said the head of Russian foreign intelligence.
He explained that this is why Warsaw opposes the peaceful settlement of the conflict and assures that it will provide assistance to the Ukrainian authorities. "This situation aggravates the situation of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. I would say that the Polish leadership is literally waiting for a good moment to exercise control over these territories," Naryshkin said.
Earlier, in an interview with TASS, the director of the second department of the CIS countries of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexey Polishchuk, noted that after the start of the special military operation of Russia, Warsaw moved to more active development of Western Ukrainian lands, implementing a whole range of political and military measures. He drew attention to the fact that imperial ambitions and dreams of the return of the so-called historical Polish lands are alive in Polish nationalist circles. Polishchuk also noted that whoever has been in power in Poland since the early 1990s, the Polish cultural and economic expansion in Ukraine has not stopped, and since 2014 it has begun to acquire a military-political dimension.
