{"id":2512176,"date":"2025-11-19T06:41:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poland-to-shut-last-russian-consulate-in-the-country-after-railway-sabotage\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T06:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:43:27","slug":"poland-to-shut-last-russian-consulate-in-the-country-after-railway-sabotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poland-to-shut-last-russian-consulate-in-the-country-after-railway-sabotage\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland to shut last Russian consulate in the country after railway sabotage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoland-to-shut-last-russian-consulate-in-the-country-after-railway-sabotage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2512176&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Poland has announced it will close the last remaining Russian consulate in the country, located in Gdansk, following allegations that two Ukrainian nationals working for Moscow were involved in sabotaging a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tokyo-525-people-hospitalized-for-falling-on-ice-in-record-snowfall\/\" title=\"Tokyo: 525 People Hospitalized for \u2018Falling on Ice\u2019 in Record Snowfall\">railway line<\/a> in Poland. The Polish <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >foreign minister<\/a>, Radek Sikorski, stated that this move is part of a response too repeated hostile acts by Russia against Poland, describing the recent sabotage as an act of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-dept-urges-peace-amid-fighting-in-chad-east-africa\/\" title=\"State Dept. urges peace amid fighting in Chad, East Africa\">state terror<\/a> intended to cause casualties. This closure leaves Russia with only its embassy in Warsaw.In retaliation, Russia plans to reduce Poland&#8217;s diplomatic presence in Russia. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the railway explosion near Warsaw an unprecedented act of sabotage. The suspects, who have ties to Russian intelligence, have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pornhub-founders-16-million-mansion-razed-in-massive-fire-arson-suspected\/\" title=\"Pornhub Founder\u2019s  Million Mansion Razed In Massive Fire, Arson Suspected\">reportedly fled<\/a> to Belarus. This incident is part of a broader pattern of hybrid attacks attributed to Russia across Europe as the invasion of Ukraine. Poland has previously shut down two other Russian consulates due to similar sabotage and intelligence-related acts.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Poland to shut last Russian consulate in the country after railway sabotage<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2406108\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>WARSAW, Poland (AP) &mdash; Poland&rsquo;s foreign minister said Wednesday that he will order the closure of the last Russian consulate still operating in the country after authorities said two Ukrainian citizens working for <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/moscow\/\">Moscow<\/a> are suspected of&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/poland-railway-line-explosion-russia-535351075f436b6b8c168e69073644c2\">blowing up a railway line<\/a>&nbsp;in Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Radek Sikorski said he had repeatedly warned <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/russia\/\">Russia<\/a> that its diplomatic and consular presence would be reduced further if it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">didn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t cease hostile actions against <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/poland\/\">Poland<\/a>, Polish news agency PAP reported.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3890969\/house-vote-dc-criminal-justice-enforcement-bills\/\">House set to vote on bills targeting DC criminal justice enforcement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3891013\/trump-treading-water-epstein-economy-maga-coalition-splinters\/\">Trump treading water on Epstein and the economy as MAGA coalition splinters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3890483\/lies-smears-ai-deepfakes-dhs-tackles-fake-news-about-ice\/\">&#8216;Lies, smears and AI deepfakes&#8217;: DHS tackles fake news about ICE<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;In connection with this, though it will not be our full response, I have decided to withdraw consent for the operation of the last Russian consulate in Gdansk,&rdquo; he said. He added that Russia would be formally notified within hours.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This time it was an act of not only subversion, as happened before, but an act of state terror as its clear intention was to cause human casualties,&rdquo; Sikorski said. The closure will leave Russia with only its embassy in Warsaw.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Moscow will &ldquo;reduce Poland&rsquo;s diplomatic and consular presence in Russia,&rdquo; the state news agency RIA Novosti cited Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Poland&rsquo;s Prime Minister Donald Tusk has described the weekend explosion on a line linking Poland&rsquo;s capital, Warsaw, to the border with&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a>&nbsp;as an &ldquo;unprecedented act of sabotage.&rdquo; The blast damaged tracks near Mika, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) southeast of Warsaw. No one was hurt.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate weekend incident, power lines were destroyed in the area of Pu&#322;awy, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Lublin in eastern Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Sikorski&rsquo;s comments, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia&rsquo;s &ldquo;relations with Poland have deteriorated completely.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is probably a manifestation of this degradation, of the desire of the Polish authorities to reduce to zero any possibility of consular or diplomatic ties. In this case, one can only express regret,&rdquo; Peskov told reporters during his daily conference call.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Tusk told the Polish parliament that the two suspects had been collaborating with the Russian secret services for a long time. He said their identities were known but could not be revealed to the public because of the ongoing investigation, and that the pair had already left Poland, crossing into Belarus.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3889930\/poland-donald-tusk-explosion-railroad-sabotage\/\"><strong>POLISH PRIME MINISTER CALLS ATTACK ON RAILROAD &lsquo;UNPRECEDENTED ACT OF SABOTAGE&rsquo;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Western officials have accused Russia and its proxies of staging&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-war-europe-hybrid-campaign-d61887dd3ec6151adf354c5bd3e6273e\">dozens of attacks and other incidents<\/a>&nbsp;across Europe since the&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine\">invasion of Ukraine<\/a>&nbsp;more than three years ago, according to data collected by The Associated Press. Moscow&rsquo;s goal, Western officials say, is to undermine support for Ukraine, spark fear and divide European societies.<\/p>\n<p>Poland ordered the closure of two other Russian consulates in recent years. The&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/poland-russia-krakow-consulate-arson-0035a4ee4fe54498c8fa641941c9c39d\">consulate in Krakow<\/a>&nbsp;was closed earlier this year after Poland determined that a fire that destroyed a shopping center in Warsaw in 2024 was the result of arson ordered by Russian intelligence service.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Sikorski&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/poland-russia-ukraine-hybrid-war-sabotage-66a7c9c683e00f08dc46e4178776d7b9\">ordered the closure<\/a>&nbsp;of the consulate in Poznan, in response to&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/poland-baltic-states-russia-threats-sabotage-2273d15b717d7b499e669038d21d9acb\">acts of sabotage<\/a>&nbsp;including arson attacks that he said were sponsored by Moscow.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland to close last Russian consulate after railway attack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2634,"featured_media":2512177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Poland-trains.webp?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[67318,32402,11622,67319,4280],"class_list":["post-2512176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-consulate-closure","tag-international-relations","tag-poland","tag-railway-sabotage","tag-russia"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Poland-trains.webp?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2512176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512180,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512176\/revisions\/2512180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2512177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}