Russia, Belarus cheer Polish court crisis

RTÉ News · RTÉ News · 2026-11-03 14:14 UTC

Russian and Belarusian media and officials are seizing on a crisis around Poland's Constitutional Tribunal, with a sense of schadenfreude prevailing in Moscow, the Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily reported.

Russian and Belarusian media and officials are seizing on a crisis around Poland's Constitutional Tribunal, with a sense of schadenfreude prevailing in Moscow, the Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily reported on Monday.

Russia's biggest news agency, RIA Novosti, described Friday's events outside the tribunal as an "attempted coup". Its first commentary, published late that night, was headlined "Poland postpones war with Russia. Civil war on the agenda", the newspaper said.

Kirill Dmitriev, an envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin who leads the economic side of talks with the United States, weighed in on a post by pro-Trump influencer Jack Posobiec, who had threatened Prime Minister Donald Tusk with prison.

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