"Night Wolves" decided to enter Poland without permission

The bikers from the Night Wolves club, despite the prohibition of Poland, will still enter this country. About this radio station "Kommersant FM" said the club leader Alexander Zaldostanov, also known under the pseudonym Surgeon.

“We are as planned, so we will act. I do not want to comment on how we get around the ban. They refuse to give us permission to pass in a column, which means we will go one by one, we will go from different places, ”he said.

Zaldostanov stressed that the club will not abandon plans to hold a motorcycle race. “If Poland refused us, this does not mean that we accept this refusal. If we listen to all this, then let us give up everything altogether: May 9, our dead, our history and our values, ”he said.

24 April The Polish Foreign Ministry sent a note to the Russian Embassy about the refusal of bikers from the Night Wolves club to enter the country. The reason for this was the lack of an accurate description of the route of bikers, as well as a list of people entering Poland. “This information is necessary to ensure their safety,” the document says.

The Polish Foreign Ministry also reported that "it received too late information about the planned event from the Russian side - just a week before it began."

16 April it became known that the "Night Wolves" refused to travel through Berlin.

Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek called the Night Wolves trip provocative, reports "Radio Freedom". The same opinion is shared by six young people who recently appealed to the Czech government and members of the Czech parliament:

“We request that you do not grant Schengen visas to members of the Night Wolves club,” the Czech petition states, “and in the event that entry has already been granted, we request that this decision be reconsidered for the following reasons: in the past, some members of the club have problems with the law... we consider the Night Wolves to be a militaristic and dangerous organization; bikers are under the direct patronage of Vladimir Putin, intensively support the politically and ideologically authoritarian regime... we consider such activity undesirable on the territory of the Czech Republic; the head of the bikers, Alexander Zaldostanov, is on the list of persona non grata in connection with the sanctions imposed on Russia. In our opinion, the Czech Republic should stand in solidarity with its allies; Finally, driving through significant battlefields of the Second World War should remind one of the advance of the Red Army across Europe, which, in addition to liberation, also brought many years of unfreedom. And in the context of the current situation, we are talking about propaganda of the policies of the Russian government in Western and Central Europe.”

Bikers from the Night Wolves club are going to hold a motorcycle race dedicated to the 70 anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. They plan to drive through the territory of Belarus, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria and Germany. The length of the path will be over six thousand kilometers. The purpose of the action is to visit the memorial complexes of the Great Patriotic War.