On Monday, the Ministry of Treasury of Poland took over a complex of buildings that belonged to the Soviet Union and later to russia.
In Warsaw, the complex is known as "Szpiegowo," which can be translated as "spy village." During the Soviet era, Soviet missions employers lived here, but the complex was abandoned in the mid-1970s. In 2016, the Warsaw District Court ruled to return the building to Polish, but russia appealed.
On Monday, 11 April 2022, Warsaw City Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski and bailiffs entered the building.
"Each room was demolished and dismantled. It seems that only load-bearing walls are fine. Even the elevator cables were cut," - the Warsaw City Mayor wrote on Facebook. However, he promised that the city would restore apartments for Ukrainian refugees.
Rafal Trzaskowski added that the decision to hand over the building "is directly related to russia's aggression against Ukraine."
On Monday, the Ambassador of Ukraine, Andriy Deshchytsia, submitted a note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in which he expressed interest in renting the "spy village."
"We will decide what will be there in the future - it will serve Ukrainians and Ukraine," - the ambassador emphasized.