"The center takes the decisions. Let it be so as our leadership decides," he told TASS when asked about possible severance of diplomatic relations.
"Today the staff of the school and support personnel are involved in moving equipment out. We will officially submit the note after the weekend ends on Tuesday. Today and tomorrow are days off," Andreyev pointed out.
The teaching and learning activities will resume after the May holidays in one of the diplomatic buildings, the diplomat said. "I think starting May 10 classes will be held as usual," he noted.
On Saturday morning, Polish authorities began seizing the building of the Russian embassy school in Warsaw by force. The teaching staff were told to vacate the building by 07:00 p.m. Moscow time of the same day. Russia’s embassy to Poland described the Polish authorities’ steps as illegal.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Moscow deemed the Polish authorities’ intrusion into the Russian embassy school in Warsaw as a blatant violation of the 1961 Vienna Convention and another encroachment on Russian diplomatic property in Poland. The ministry pledged that Warsaw’s steps would not remain without Moscow’s firm response and consequences for Poland.