“The lie about Poland’s alleged plans to attack Western Ukraine has been repeated for several years,” he wrote on Twitter.

According to Zharin, the purpose of disseminating this information is to undermine cooperation between Warsaw and Kyiv.

Earlier, the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of Russia, Sergei Naryshkin, said that the United States and Poland are working on plans to establish control over Warsaw's "historical possessions" in Ukraine.

He noted that the first stage of the "reunification" of Poland and Ukraine should be the entry of Polish troops into the western Ukrainian regions under the pretext of protecting them from Russia.