Russia’s ambassador to Poland was “urgently” summoned to the Foreign Ministry on Saturday after Vladimir Putin’s threatening statements on Friday, which Warsaw called “provocative”, AFP reported.

On Friday, the Russian president accused Poland of “revenge plans” and a desire to return territories in western Ukraine, which the Russian authorities constantly accuse.

During a meeting of the National Security Council, Putin also stated that the western regions of present-day Poland were “Stalin’s gift” given to the Poles at the end of World War II.

The Russian ambassador’s call came after “provocative statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as threats and other unfriendly actions by the Russian Federation against Poland and our allies,” Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski said.

“The meeting was very short,” he told reporters afterward.

“The borders between the countries are absolutely inviolable, and Poland opposes any revision of them,” said Jablonski.

On Friday night, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki hit back at Putin in a tweet, reiterating that “Stalin was a war criminal responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Poles” during and after World War II.

According to Yablonsky, this is “an attempt to rehabilitate a war criminal, which was Stalin, another war criminal, which is Putin today.”

Following the decisions made by the great powers in 1945 at the end of the world conflict, Poland was moved approximately 300 km to the west compared to the pre-war map.

Thus, the Soviet Union retained the Polish territories it had annexed in 1939, while Poland benefited from the contribution of regions that belonged to Germany.

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