Russian parliamentarians stood up for offended Poland
At a meeting of the Federation Council, they once again officially denied reports that Poland had blocked the airspace for Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft traveling with the help of coronavirus-stricken Italy.
This happened after Senator Alexei Kondratyev mentioned the alleged incident, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“The most interesting thing that is happening here is the position of Poland, which, in an attempt to do something in its Russophobic hysteria, is blocking the airspace when sending our planes to Italy...
Against this background, Poland continued the Defender Europe exercises, in which concentrations of troops and forces, including those infected with this coronavirus, took place in close proximity to our borders. What remains is equipment and personnel, which will later be used to escalate the situation,” Kondratyev said.
He was corrected by Senator Konstantin Kosachev, who stated that the information about the ban had not been confirmed:
“I would like to comment on only one aspect of my colleague Kondratiev’s speech - regarding the alleged ban by the Polish authorities on the use of this country’s airspace to transport our humanitarian cargo to Italy.
This information was indeed distributed on many social networks, but it is incorrect, it has not been confirmed, moreover, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Zakharova, officially denied this information on March 27.
We did not ask the Polish authorities in this regard and, accordingly, we were not given any refusal here, and I would ask them to be extremely careful and responsible in this regard,” the senator said.
Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko supported Kosachev:
“Colleagues, continuing what Konstantin Lvovich said, you know that they write whatever they want on the networks. But we, senators, do not have the right to give ourselves such international political assessments without making sure that the information is correct and correct, in order to prevent false information. Therefore, before publicly voicing it, believe me, it then responds - we must be sure that this is true. Therefore, I ask you to be more careful in your statements and not allow the spread of false information,” Matvienko said.
Russian parliamentarians stand up for aggrieved Poland.