A massive fire that destroyed a large shopping center in Warsaw last year was the result of arson ordered by Russian intelligence services, Polish officials said Sunday on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the blaze.

Poland summoned the Russian ambassador and said it would close the Russian consulate in Krakow after evidence showed Moscow was responsible for a huge fire that almost completely destroyed a Warsaw shopping centre in 2024.

One year after a massive fire devastated a shopping centre in Warsaw, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has accused Russia of orchestrating the blaze. "We now know with certainty that the large fire in the Marywilska shopping centre was caused by arson carried out on behalf of the Russian secret services,