La Polonia “non può garantire” che Putin non venga arrestato se volasse attraverso lo spazio aereo polacco verso l’Ungheria

Just send some kamikaze drones as a hello, no need to try to arrest at this point.

Didn’t the meeting get cancelled?

Polen got very strong ober the last 5-10 years, i think they are very underrated

Lol let’s real. Putin could go on EU tour and land in every capital city from Warsaw to London and nothing would happen.

Too afraid to shoot a drone and they would arrest him, right.

Better yet, shoot the plane down.

Poland’s foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski, has said that he “cannot guarantee” that, if Vladimir Putin seeks to fly through Polish airspace to a proposed meeting with Donald Trump in Budapest, his plane would not be forced to land and the Russian president detained under an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant.

Sikorski’s comments were criticised by his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, who suggested that failing to guarantee the safety of Putin’s plane would amount to a “terrorist act”.

In March 2023, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin, who is accused of committing a war crime through the illegal deportation of children from Ukraine during the ongoing war.

Last week, following a phone call with Putin, Trump said the two leaders may meet in Budapest to discuss ending the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Hungary, which enjoys close relations with Moscow, is in the process of withdrawing from the ICC. However, were Putin to visit Hungary, it is possible he would have to fly over other EU countries that remain committed to the international court.

In an interview with Radio Rodzina on Tuesday morning, Sikorski was asked what Poland would do if Putin were to seek to fly through its airspace.

“We cannot guarantee that an independent Polish court will not order a hypothetical plane carrying Putin to be brought down for the suspect’s transfer to The Hague,” said Sikorski, referring to the Dutch city where the ICC is based.

The Polish foreign minister also criticised Hungary, saying that “the fact that an EU member state, still bound by the International Criminal Court, invites President Putin is not only distasteful, it also shows that Hungary positions itself not as part of the West”.

He added that Hungary was also undermining Western unity in other ways, such as by blocking assistance for Ukraine and maintaining high imports of Russian oil. Poland has been one of Ukraine’s most vocal allies since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.

Sikorski’s remarks prompted an angry response from Lavrov, who noted that last week a Polish court had refused to extradite a Ukrainian man suspected of involvement in blowing up the Nord Stream gas pipelines that brought Russian gas to Germany.

“I heard here that Mr Sikorski threatened that the security of President Putin’s plane…in Polish airspace,” said Lavrov, quoted by news agency TASS, adding that it appears that “the Poles are now ready to commit terrorist acts themselves”.

“In Poland, a court officially made a decision justifying the terrorist attack on Nord Stream – and now the foreign minister is saying that, if a Polish court demands it, it will impede the free movement of the Russian leader’s plane,” he added.

Can we ban bots like OP?

If a new meeting with Trump . So Polen get the despot down and arrest him at once , and send him to Haag , and straight to prison that clown