US EditionRussia Closes Polish Consulate in Kaliningrad in Tit-for-Tat Diplomatic Row
KALININGRAD, RUSSIA, JUL 11 – Russia will close Poland's consulate in Kaliningrad on August 29 in retaliation for Poland shutting the Russian consulate in Krakow amid accusations of Russian sabotage in 2024.
- Moscow ordered the closure of Poland’s Consulate in Kaliningrad as a retaliation measure due to strained relations between the two nations related to alleged sabotage activities.
- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk asserted that a fire at a Warsaw shopping center was arson commissioned by Russian security services.
- Russia denied any involvement in the Marywilska fire, which Poland attributed to Moscow.
- The closure of the consulate leaves only one Russian Consulate in Poland, located in Gdansk.
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By order of Russian authorities, Poland must clear its Consulate General in the Kaliningrad region of the Baltic Sea. For Russia, this is the result of "enemy actions".
Moscow today ordered the closure of the Polish consulate in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, in response to Warsaw closing the Russian consulate in Krakow in May 2025.
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Russia has announced it will shut down Poland’s consulate in Kaliningrad, in response to Warsaw’s decision to close the Russian consulate in Krakow earlier this year. The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed on Friday that it was “withdrawing consent for the functioning of the Consulate General of Poland in Kaliningrad” from 29 August. It said the Polish chargé d’affaires in Moscow had been summoned and handed a diplomatic note formalising the exp…
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Russia closes Polish consulate in Kaliningrad in tit-for-tat diplomatic row
Moscow has ordered the closure of Poland’s Consulate in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad in a tit-for-tat move as relations between the countries remain strained over a Warsaw fire that Poland alleges was Russian sabotage.
Russia Orders Closure of Polish Consulate in Kaliningrad
Russia had ordered the closure of Poland’s consulate in the western city of Kaliningrad in retaliation for what it called the “unjustified and hostile” shutdown of its own consulate in the Polish city of Krakow.
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