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Tusk spoke at a news conference in Warsaw alongside Ukrainian
President Volodymr Zelenskyy.
“I will not go into details, I can only confirm the validity of
fears that Russia was planning acts of air terror, not only
against Poland, but against airlines around the world,” Tusk
said.
The Kremlin has dismissed previous Western claims that Russia
sponsored acts of sabotage and attacks in Europe.
Western security officials suspect Russian intelligence was
behind a plot to put incendiary devices in packages on cargo
planes headed to North America, including one that caught fire
at a courier hub in Germany and another that ignited in a
warehouse in England last year.
Late last year, Azerbaijan accused Russia of unintentionally
shooting down an Azerbaijani airliner that crashed in Kazakhstan
on Dec. 25, killing 38 people. Russian President Vladimir Putin
apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he called a
“tragic incident” following the crash, but stopped short of
acknowledging that Moscow was responsible.
The pro-European Union government in Warsaw says that Russia is
pursuing acts of hybrid war against Poland and other Western
countries in retaliation for their support for Poland’s neighbor
Ukraine in its struggle against Russia's full-scale invasion.
The government has accused Russia, and its ally Belarus, of
fomenting a migration crisis on the EU's eastern border with
Belarus in order to create chaos and division in the EU.
Last year, Poland's foreign minister ordered the closure of one
of three Russian consulates in the country in response to acts
of sabotage, including arson attacks that he said were sponsored
by Moscow.
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