Poland has announced that it will change the name of the Russian city of Kaliningrad in official documents to Krolewiec, as it was known when it was ruled by the Kingdom of Poland in the 15th and 16th centuries, which Russia says is “madness”.
According to the Associated Press (AP), Warsaw wants to rename the city Krolewiec, which was ceded to the Soviet Union by Germany after World War II and renamed Kaliningrad in 1946. Bolshevik Revolution.
Michael Galin is associated with the Katyn Massacre in 1940, when thousands of Polish soldiers were executed by Soviet forces, which is why he is now designated Krolewiec based on the recommendation of the Government Commission for Foreign Geographical Names on Polish Maps.
Reacting to the Polish decision, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called it “bordering on madness” and “anti-Russian hatred” and the renaming of Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave in the Baltic region with Lithuania and Poland, two EU and NATO countries. .
“We know that throughout history, Poland, from time to time, has fallen into this madness of hatred against Russians,” Dmitry Peskov told a press conference.
The war in neighboring Ukraine has heightened historic tensions between Russia and Ukraine’s ally Poland, which have supplied each other with weapons and pressured international support.
Today, the Russian ambassador to Poland, Sergey Andreev, was summoned to Poland’s Foreign Ministry over an incident last week in the Black Sea region, when a Russian warplane made dangerous maneuvers near a Polish aircraft patrolling the European border and coast guard.
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