Poland orders Russian consulate in Krakow closed after blaming Kremlin for 2024 arson

Polish officials ordered the closure of Russia's consulate successful Krakow connected Monday aft an probe concluded that Moscow was responsible for a 2024 arson that destroyed a buying halfway successful Warsaw.

Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski announced the closure connected Monday and besides remarked connected the substance during a sojourn to the U.K. It came aft the decision of a year-long probe into a blaze that destroyed a buying halfway with immoderate 1,400 stores past year. 

"This was a immense occurrence of a buying promenade successful Warsaw successful which, conscionable by sheer luck, cipher was hurt. This is wholly unacceptable," Sikorski said. "So the Russian consulate volition person to leave, and if these attacks continue, we’ll instrumentality further action."

Russian officials person denied wrongdoing and condemned Poland's determination successful statements to the press.

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A occurrence burns from a immense buying analyzable successful Warsaw, Poland, May 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Norbert Ofmanski, File)

"Warsaw is continuing to deliberately destruct relations and acting against the interests of its citizens," ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said, according to Russian media.

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The incidental comes conscionable days earlier Russian President Vladimir Putin is acceptable to conscionable face-to-face with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy successful Turkey connected Thursday. Putin initially projected the Thursday gathering this weekend, and President Donald Trump prompted Zelenskyy to judge the offer. Putin said the talks successful Istanbul indispensable beryllium held without preconditions and with the extremity of lasting peace.

Russian President Vladimir Putin volition conscionable with Ukraine's Zelenskyy connected Thursday. (Valentina Pevtsova, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin has frankincense acold offered few, if any, concessions but is present saying talks should code the basal causes of the war. He said Sunday that helium planned to talk to Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan astir facilitating the negotiations, which helium said could effect successful a ceasefire.

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"Our proposal, arsenic they say, is connected the table," Putin said. "The determination is present up to the Ukrainian authorities and their curators, who are guided, it seems, by their idiosyncratic governmental ambitions, and not by the interests of their peoples."

Zelenskyy agreed to conscionable straight with Putin pursuing urging from Trump.

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The Russian person said helium does not regularisation retired that Moscow and Kyiv volition hold connected "some caller truces, a caller ceasefire" during negotiations successful Turkey, saying that the talks would beryllium the archetypal measurement toward a "sustainable" peace.

Fox News' Landon Mion contributed to this report.