{"id":25318,"date":"2026-09-14T08:25:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=25318"},"modified":"2026-09-14T08:25:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:40:57","slug":"zakharova-mocks-sikorskis-claim-poland-would-quickly-defeat-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=25318","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Zakharova Mocks Sikorski\u2019s Claim Poland Would Quickly Defeat Russia<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dragon Media News Desk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has sharply responded to Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski\u2019s statement that Poland would \u201cvery quickly achieve victory\u201d if Russia attacked the country.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on Sikorski\u2019s remarks, Zakharova used the phrase \u201cRussophobia of the brain,\u201d a sarcastic expression suggesting that she regarded his statement as an extreme manifestation of anti-Russian thinking.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange comes amid continuing political and security tensions between Moscow and Warsaw. Poland has been one of Ukraine\u2019s strongest European supporters, providing political and military assistance to Kyiv, while Russia has repeatedly criticized Warsaw\u2019s security policies and rhetoric as openly hostile toward Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Sikorski\u2019s statement concerned a hypothetical Russian attack on Poland, while Zakharova\u2019s response reflected Moscow\u2019s rejection of what it sees as increasingly confrontational rhetoric from European governments toward Russia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=25318\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"time\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragon Media News Desk Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has sharply responded to Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski\u2019s statement that Poland would \u201cvery quickly achieve victory\u201d if Russia attacked the country. Commenting on Sikorski\u2019s remarks, Zakharova used the phrase \u201cRussophobia of the brain,\u201d a sarcastic expression suggesting that she regarded his statement as an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zakharova Mocks Sikorski\u2019s Claim Poland Would Quickly Defeat Russia - Dragon Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The exchange comes amid continuing political and security tensions between Moscow and Warsaw.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=25318\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zakharova Mocks Sikorski\u2019s Claim Poland Would Quickly Defeat Russia - 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