“We profoundly deplore this event, especially because the Russian authorities have not explained the reasons for their decisions,” the Polish Prime Minister said in statements reported by Agence France-Presse.
Cimoszewicz said that his government transmitted his country’s “critical reaction” to the Russian ambassador in Warsaw, and asked Moscow to explain the expulsions.
In a statement Sept. 10, Vatican spokesman Joaquín Navarro-Valls protested over the expulsion of Father Jaroslaw Wisniewski.