The judge also appeared at a press conference in Minsk, one of Russia’s few allies in the war against Ukraine, and praised President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime for running a “prosperous country.”
He argued that officials in Warsaw, under the influence of the United States and the United Kingdom, “are leading the country to war.”
His flight to Minsk was condemned in Warsaw.
“Whoever is fleeing Poland to Belarus in order to discredit Poland and the NATO community of which we are part is a scoundrel and a traitor,” said Stanislav Zrin, an aide to President Andrzej Duda. told Correspondent in Warsaw.
Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski Said: “This is shocking information that I find difficult to comment on.”
Relations between Poland and Belarus are at their lowest level in decades. Warsaw has accused the Minsk regime of stoking a migration crisis on their border, supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine and violently suppressing dissent after Lukashenko stole the 2020 presidential election.