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Polish President Andrzej Duda denounced Russia for its "bloodthirsty imperialism" and dismissed threats made to Poland and the Baltic states, describing them as "classic Russian misleading disinformation."

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Russia, which is behaving aggressively towards NATO and implementing its brutal and bloodthirsty imperialism, has been attacking Ukraine for three years

Everything NATO does is a response to Russian aggression... NATO has never attacked anyone and does not attack, it is an alliance that exclusively supports security

Naryshkin threatened Poland and Baltic states, saying they would be the first to suffer in the event of NATO aggression against Russia and Belarus

Duda called Naryshkin's statement "classic Russian disinformation, characteristic of the Soviet school of propaganda"

Russia is redeploying its nuclear weapons to Belarus, bringing it closer to NATO and EU borders

NATO is a purely defensive alliance that has never attacked anyone

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Extracted: 2026-07-18T17:08:25.408Z

Source story: duda-dismisses-threats-against-poland-and-baltics-as-russian-disinformation