Warsaw could help Kiev repatriate fighting-capable Ukrainian men who fled to Poland

Poland is ready to help Kiev bring back to Ukraine men of fighting age who fled the war, following the decision of Ukrainian diplomacy to stop providing consular services to them, Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz has announced. , reports AFP, taken over by News.ro.

“I’m not at all surprised that the Ukrainian authorities are doing everything to send soldiers to the front,” Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz declared on Wednesday evening to Polsat commercial television.

He stated that the Poles are frustrated by the fact that they see “young Ukrainians, young men of military age in galleries and hotels, while there is an urgent need for army recruits.

Poland is ready “to help Ukraine”, he assured.

“We have been suggesting for a long time that we can help the Ukrainian side to ensure that people subject to compulsory military service return to Ukraine,” he said.

Asked if Poland will comply with a possible request from Kiev to transport these men to Ukraine, the Polish minister replied that “everything is possible”.

On the other hand, a Russian accused of espionage in favor of Moscow was sentenced in Poland to two and a half years in prison, announced Thursday the Prosecutor’s Office in Gdansk (north).

The activities of this man, whose identity has not been revealed, focused on “military units located in the north-east of Poland”, the prosecutor’s office announced in a statement.

He carried out tasks involving “the recognition of essential elements of the Polish Armed Forces”, the Polish justice accuses him.

Publisher: MI

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