WARSAW, Poland - Poland’s prime minister said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been lying in remarks blaming Poland for the outbreak of World War II, and argued that Putin is doing it to deflect from recent Russian political failures. Putin has said on several recent occasions that Poland bears responsibility for the outbreak of the war, deepening tensions between the two Slavic nations. World War II began in 1939 when Poland was invaded first by Nazi Germany, then by the Soviet Union two weeks later. “President Putin has lied about Poland on numerous occasions, and he has always done it deliberately,” Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in a statement. “I consider the words of President Putin as an attempt to conceal these problems,” Morawiecki said.

Source: thestar December 29, 2019 20:35 UTC