The words in the news: This week, the powerful secretary of Russia’s National Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, said that Poland is poised to seize Ukrainian land—part of the West’s pursuit of its “selfish interests” in the region. He kept the wording vague: “By all appearances, Poland is already taking actions related to the seizure of western Ukrainian territories,” Patrushev—known as a key player in President Vladimir Putin’s “war cabinet”—was quoted by Interfax as saying May 31. This isn’t the first time such claims have been made by senior Russian officials. In late April, for instance, foreign intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin, another Kremlin insider, said that Warsaw and Washington were plotting to restore Polish control over western Ukraine, a claim Poland denied as “lies” meant to “foster distrust between Ukraine and Poland.” In rekindling the allegation earlier this week, Patrushev reportedly said that “the so-called Western partners of the Kyiv1 regime” want to take “advantage of the current situation in [their own] selfish interests and have special plans for Ukrainian lands.”
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