His supporters have said he was suffering from significant stomach pain in jail, which they claimed could be a sign of a slow acting poison. The Russian opposition leader is serving combined sentences of 11 and a half years for fraud and contempt of court charges, which he claims were created to silence him. The United Nations has called on Russia to provide Alexei Navalny with 'urgent and comprehensive' medical care after reports that his health was deteriorating. Kaliningrad was cut off from Moscow when Lithuania became independent during the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. 'We know that throughout history Poland has slipped from time to time into this madness of hatred towards Russians,' he told a briefing.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the decision 'bordered on madness'. However, Poland has said Kalinin's connection to the 1940 Katyn massacre, which saw thousands of Polish officers executed by Soviet forces, had negative connotations.Īs a result, Warsaw has decided to call the city Krolewiec - the name it had when it was ruled by the Kingdom of Poland in the 15th and 16th centuries. Kaliningrad, which sits in an exclave that is sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland, was known as Koenigsberg until it was annexed by the Soviet Union at the end of World War Two and renamed to honour politician Mikhail Kalinin. Poland's decision to rename the Russian city of Kaliningrad is a 'hostile act', the Kremlin has said, as ties between the two countries continue to fray. Is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. The KH-55, which is referred to as CH-55 in Polish, is anĪir launched cruise missile developed by the Soviet Union that Private broadcaster Polsat News also reported the news. Private broadcaster RMF FM reported today that preliminary findings of Poland's Airįorce Institute of Technology were that the object was a Russian Kilometres from Poland's borders with Ukraine, Belarus and the

In April, Polish authorities said a 'military object' hadīeen discovered close to the village of Zamosc near theĮxplosion had been found at the site, which was hundreds of People were killed near the border by a misfired Ukrainian missile last November. Poland has been on alert for possible spillover of weaponryįrom the war in neighbouring Ukraine, especially since two A military object found in a Polish forest last month was a Russian KH-55 missile, two media outlets have reported.

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