In Poland, officials state they did not close the sky to Slovak lawmakers traveling to Russia.

The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has denied claims made by Slovak MP Andrej Danko that Poland allegedly closed its airspace during the flight of the Slovak delegation to Moscow.

Spokesperson for the Polish MFA, Pawel Wronski, shared this information in a comment to Polskie Radio stating.

"We did not refuse the Slovak side's flight, but they sent us incomplete documents without annotations, and then, during the review process, when asked to supplement them, they informed us of a route change," the spokesperson explained.

The Polish broadcaster also asked Poland's Defense Minister, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, about Polish-Slovak relations following this incident. He noted that the Polish-Slovak relations are good.

"As for the flight direction, I recommend flying to Warsaw rather than Moscow," Kosiniak-Kamysz remarked.

It is worth recalling that on January 12, a group of far-right MPs from Slovakia, led by the deputy speaker and leader of the nationalist Slovak National Party, Andrej Danko, embarked on a several-day trip to Russia, where they plan to discuss, among other things, the continuation of Russian gas supplies after its transit through Ukraine became impossible.

Background. Earlier, Mind reported that Ukraine had offered its assistance to Slovakia following the suspension of Russian gas transit, but the country’s Prime Minister, Robert Fico, "arrogantly declined." This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelensky.