The Polish president Andrzej Duda has vowed that Poland will never recognise Russia annexation of Ukrainian territory.
Vladimir Putin has announced the annexation of four regions of Ukraine: Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia on Friday, citing the results of the referendums carried out by the Russians in the occupied territories on September 23 -- 27, which the West has dismissed as a sham.
In response to the news, Duda wrote on Twitter that Poland condemns RUS attempts to annex UA territory and will never recognise them. He pointed out in his tweet that we will continue to support the Defenders of UA until the aggressor is driven out.
Duda said that the Kremlin's desperate action is a defeat for those who naively believed in a compromise with RUS.
The Polish Foreign Ministry released a statement that dissented the Kremlin's landgrabs.
The ministry said that the Ukrainian oblasts of Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, Kherson, and Donetsk remain part of Ukraine in the light of international law.
The Russian president's decrees regarding the annexation of these regions on September 29 and 30 this year do not recognize and will not recognise the results of the pseudo-referendums carried out in these areas on September 23 - 27 this year, nor the Russian president's decrees regarding the annexation of these regions announced on September 29 and 30 this year, the statement said.
The ministry said that it fully recognises the territorial integrity of Ukraine within internationally recognised borders and called for further sanctions on Russia.
Marlena Malag, the labour and family minister, told PAP on Friday that Poland had decided to lift the facilitated access of Russians to the Polish labour market because of the Kremlin's military actions in Ukraine, migratory risks from Russia and growing fears of a Russian hybrid attack on Poland.