Russia criticised in new Wikileaks

4th December 2010

Sikorski has “opened old disputes"

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Comments made by Radek Sikorski about “Russian aggression” ruffled feathers in both Washington and Moscow, the latest batch of documents from Wikileaks have revealed.

In 2009 while on a visit to Washington, Mr Sikorski said that American forces should be deployed to Poland to “protect it against Russian aggression”. He also said that war games involving Russian and Belarusian forces taking place at the time were directed against Poland.

The comments provoked a disappointed reaction from the United States. In a cable from the US embassy in Moscow, one diplomat said Russian officials has claimed that the remarks “not only harmed improved Polish relations but harmed US-Russian, ...

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