The judge also appeared at a press conference in Minsk, one of Russia’s few allies in its war against Ukraine, praising the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko for running a “blooming country.”
He argued that the authorities in Warsaw, under the influence of the United States and the United Kingdom, are “leading the country to war.”
His flight to Minsk was denounced in Warsaw.
“Whoever is fleeing Poland to Belarus to slander Poland and the NATO community of which we are a part is a scoundrel and traitor,” Stanisław Żaryn, an aide to President Andrzej Duda, told reporters in Warsaw.
Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said: “It’s shocking information that I’m finding hard to comment on.”
Relations between Poland and Belarus are at their lowest point in decades. Warsaw has accused the Minsk regime of orchestrating a migration crisis along their mutual border, of backing Russia’s war in Ukraine, and of violently crushing dissent after the 2020 presidential election was stolen by Lukashenko.
