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The recent accusations by European countries about alleged violations of Polish airspace by Russian drones aim to hinder the resolution of the Ukrainian conflict, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova this Friday.
"The West has already identified the culprit"
Commenting on the event, which took place on September 10, when Polish forces detected several unmanned aerial vehicles in their airspace and proceeded to shoot them down, the spokeswoman stressed that "the circumstances of the incident are still unclear, the necessary investigation has not been carried out nor has conclusive evidence been gathered". Despite that, the West has already "identified the culprit, and that culprit, of course, is the Russian Federation", she lamented.
"And, once again, the accusations against Russia of trying to deliberately provoke and escalate the conflict are, as usual, unfounded. No concrete evidence of our country's alleged ill intent has been presented," the spokeswoman continued. "Total disinterest from the West in establishing the truth" In that context, he indicated that the precipitation with which Moscow has been attributed responsibility for what happened and "the categorical refusal of the Polish authorities to accept the consultations proposed by the Russian Ministry of Defense demonstrate the total disinterest of the West in establishing the truth about the incident." He pointed out that the explanations of the Russian authorities and the facts presented are ignored by Europe. "This is a new link in a large-scale information campaign aimed at demonizing Russia and mobilizing additional support for the Kiev regime, as well as an attempt to thwart the political solution to the conflict around Ukraine," he emphasized. "Accomplices" of crimes by Kiev's neo-Nazis At the same time, the spokeswoman recalled that the participants of what she called the "'drone coalition' for the supply of unmanned aerial vehicles to Ukraine, which includes 20 countries", should face the indisputable facts of the daily crimes committed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which deliberately launch drone attacks against civilian infrastructure and the peaceful population of Russia. Thus, it was pointed out that "the fighters of the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev carry out practically 24 hours a day a real hunt for defenseless people with the help of drones" and detailed that, only during the summer and early September, 132 people, including children, were victims of the use on Russian territory by Ukrainian troops of the devices supplied by the West. Of these, 16 died and 116 suffered injuries of varying severity. "The moralism and protests of the States of the 'coalition' over the alleged violation of international law by Russia are, in this context, frankly hypocritical and inappropriate," he added. "By supplying drones to the Kiev regime, the authorities of these countries become accomplices in the crimes committed by the modern followers of [the Ukrainian Nazi collaborator Stepan] Bandera and are fully responsible for it," he concluded. The Polish Armed Forces detected several unmanned aerial vehicles in their airspace last Wednesday morning. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk commented on the situation on his X account, stating that the devices were from the Russian Army. The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that during the massive attack by Russian troops against companies of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex, it was not planned to attack targets on Polish territory. "The maximum flight range of the Russian unmanned aerial vehicles used in the attack, which supposedly crossed the border with Poland, does not exceed 700 kilometers," they explained from the agency. "However, we are willing to consult with the Polish Ministry of Defense on this issue," they added In this context, the Chancellery of the Eurasian country pointed out that the "concrete facts" provided by the Defense portfolio "completely debunk the myths once again spread by Poland to further aggravate the Ukrainian crisis."
