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Poland warns against Russia’s military intervention in Belarus

cde.news desk 27 August 2020, 22:30 · 1 min read

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki meets a participant in the Warsaw Uprising, Capt. Wladyslaw Rosinski (not pictured), in his house in Warsaw, Poland, 01 August 2020. Poland celebrates the 76th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising which started on 01 August 1944 as the biggest resistance operation in Nazi-occupied Europe. Initially intended to last several days, it continued for over two months before being suppressed by the Germans. The uprising claimed the lives of about 18,000 insurgents and around 180,000 civilians. After the uprising failed, the Nazis expelled the remaining inhabitants from the city and methodically blew it up, destroying it almost completely. EPA-EFE/MATEUSZ MAREK POLAND OUT

Russia should not intervene militarily in Belarus under the pretence of restoring control there, Polish Prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki wrote on Twitter on Thursday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday the Kremlin has set up a reserve police force to support Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko but it would not be used unless the unrest there got out of control, Interfax news agency reported.

“The Polish government urges Russia to immediately withdraw from plans of a military intervention in Belarus, under false excuse of ‘restoring control’ – a hostile act, in breach of international law and human rights of Belarusian people, who should be free to decide their own fate,” Morawiecki wrote.

Reuters

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