"They don't have brakes. You remember the ambassador's statement... "We will fight against Russia"... Consider that they will start with us. What should we do? Putin and I will pay attention to this... The first question that we will discuss with Putin is how we should put them in their place, "RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
Earlier, ambassador to France Jan Emerick Rosciszewski said on the air of the LCI TV channel that if Ukrainian troops cannot "defend their independence", then Warsaw will have to enter into a conflict.
The head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, Leonid Slutsky, noted that Poland's participation in the Ukrainian conflict would be the beginning of the third world war.
Later, the embassy reported that Rostsishevsky's statement was interpreted incorrectly and in isolation from the context.