“There is no evidence, that’s why they don’t back it up; if there were any — they would”, - stated the official representative of the russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, urging the Polish authorities to reach out to russia through official channels if they have questions about the drone incident.
She expressed the opinion that Poland’s accusations against moscow continue the chosen course of russophobia, as russian media reported on September 11.
“They can very calmly use the existing channels and clarify the situation”, - Zakharova said.
As reported, russia’s chargé d’affaires in Poland, Andrey Ordash, also told russian media on September 10 that Poland’s accusations that russian drones violated the country’s airspace were groundless and that “no evidence proving these drones are of russian origin has been presented”.
It should be noted that denying its actions is a core element of modern russian policy. For example, in 2014 russia lied about the absence of russian troops in Crimea, and from 2014 to 2022 it claimed there were no regular russian armed forces in Donbas. On the eve of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the spokesman for the russian dictator, Peskov, stated that russia would not only not attack but did not even want to utter the word “war”. “We remind you that Russia throughout its history has never attacked anyone. And Russia, which has endured so many wars, is the last country in Europe that even wants to pronounce the word ‘war’”, - russian propagandists quoted Peskov as saying on February 20, 2022.