Polish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Paweł Wroński stated on Monday that the timing and conditions under which Ukrainian officials will begin operations depend on an agreement between Ukraine and local authorities. The opening date has not yet been made public.
On Friday, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha announced plans to open two new consulates in Poland to accommodate the large number of Ukrainian citizens residing there.
Currently, approximately 950,000 Ukrainians live in Poland, down from an estimated 1.5 million at the beginning of the war.
Ukraine also intends to establish new consulates in other countries with significant Ukrainian populations, including Romania, Slovakia, Germany, and France, Sybiha explained.
Currently, Ukrainian consulates in Poland operate in Gdańsk, Kraków, Lublin, and Wrocław. A consular section also functions at the Ukrainian Embassy in Warsaw.
Ukraine expressed interest in taking over the building in Poznań for its own diplomatic mission after Poland revoked permission for the Russian General Consulate to operate there. In line with the set deadline, Russian diplomats vacated the premises by the end of November 2024.
In response to the closure of its consulate in Poznań, Russia revoked permission for the Polish diplomatic mission in St. Petersburg.
Former Russian consulate in Poznań, western Poland (photo: Poznaniak/CC-BY-SA-3.0/Wikimedia Commons)
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