Russia will file a formal diplomatic protest over what it calls the illegal occupation by the Polish authorities of its school at the embassy in Warsaw, Moscow’s ambassador to Poland told Russian state news agencies today.

Ambassador Sergei Andreev called the move a violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, but Poland said it had the right to return the building.

“Today, the Polish authorities decided to take action.

little action, despite the fact that this is a diplomatic corps, a school building,” Andreev said, according to the TASS news agency.

“These actions are illegal and constitute a violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, we will file a protest,” RIA Novosti quoted the ambassador, adding that, in his opinion, Moscow would consider retaliatory measures.

Polish state news network TVP Info reported that this morning police were outside a school on Kielkiewicz Street in Warsaw.

“This is the ambassador’s right to protest. While we don’t know if he did it or not, we are waiting for it, ”said Lukasz Jasina, spokesman for the Polish Foreign Ministry.

“Our opinion, confirmed by the courts, is that this property belongs to the Polish state and has been illegally seized by Russia,” he said.

Tensions have already developed between the two countries, which have been exacerbated by the war in Ukraine and the fact that Warsaw is helping Kyiv.

Source: APE-MPE, AFP, Reuters.