BREST, April 28. /TASS/. Russian bikers from Night Wolves club will continue their motocross Moscow-Berlin dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Victory Day despite Poland’s refusal to allow them into the country, motocross head Alexander Bobrovsky told a press conference in Belarusian Brest on Tuesday.
On Monday, April 27, a group of Russian motorcyclists was denied entry to Poland at the Brest-Terespol border crossing checkpoint. Bobrovsky said that Polish border guards informed them that participants of the motocross were included in the list of people prohibited from entering the Schengen area.
"We are bad, we should not be allowed into the European Union," Night Wolves leader Alexander Zaldostanov said. "However, there is not two of us, or twenty," he added.
Bikers will continue their motocross, Zaldostanov noted. "I will not disclose any details yet, but we will continue [the motocross]," he stressed.
Germany earlier revoked visas of several participants of the motocross. Initially, the route lay through Minsk, Brest, Wroclaw, Brno, Bratislava, Vienna, Munich and Prague.
Russia’s Ambassador to Poland Sergey Andreev said earlier on Tuesday that Poland’s decision to deny entry to Night Wolves bikers will negatively affect bilateral relations between Warsaw and Moscow. "There were no grounds for such decision," Andreev told Rossiya 1 TV channel. "We regret that such a decision was made," he added.
"Of course, such situations cannot go unnoticed for our future relations," the diplomat noted. "The 70th anniversary of Victory Day and everything connected to it is definitely a very sensitive topic for us," he stressed.
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