Polish officials ordered the closure of Russia's consulate in Krakow on Monday after an investigation concluded that Moscow was responsible for a 2024 arson that destroyed a shopping center in Warsaw.

Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski announced the closure on Monday and also remarked on the matter during a visit to the U.K. It came after the conclusion of a year-long investigation into a blaze that destroyed a shopping center with some 1,400 stores last year. 

"This was a huge fire of a shopping mall in Warsaw in which, just by sheer luck, nobody was hurt. This is completely unacceptable," Sikorski said. "So the Russian consulate will have to leave, and if these attacks continue, we’ll take further action."

Russian officials have denied wrongdoing and condemned Poland's decision in statements to the press.

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"Warsaw is continuing to deliberately destroy relations and acting against the interests of its citizens," ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said, according to Russian media.

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The incident comes just days before Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to meet face-to-face with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Turkey on Thursday. Putin initially proposed the Thursday meeting this weekend, and President Donald Trump prompted Zelenskyy to accept the offer. Putin said the talks in Istanbul must be held without preconditions and with the goal of lasting peace.

Putin has thus far offered few, if any, concessions but is now saying talks should address the root causes of the war. He said Sunday that he planned to speak to Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan about facilitating the negotiations, which he said could result in a ceasefire.

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"Our proposal, as they say, is on the table," Putin said. "The decision is now up to the Ukrainian authorities and their curators, who are guided, it seems, by their personal political ambitions, and not by the interests of their peoples."

The Russian leader said he does not rule out that Moscow and Kyiv will agree on "some new truces, a new ceasefire" during negotiations in Turkey, saying that the talks would be the first step toward a "sustainable" peace.

Fox News' Landon Mion contributed to this report.

Longtime fraud risk expert Linda Miller was cautiously optimistic in an interview that aired Sunday about the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), though she emphasized that the need to stop government fraud is not political.

"I really think fraud is not a political issue. This is mom and apple pie stuff," Miller told "60 Minutes." "We all agree that bad actors should not be stealing American taxpayer dollars. But now, it's become political. People like me, and people in the law enforcement community, we see the adversary, not as Republicans or Democrats, but as foreign adversarial nation-states and organized crime rings." 

She added, "And I believe that there's opportunities for DOGE to save a lot of significant money, if they focus on the right things, if they focus on real fraud."

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However, Miller clarified that DOGE and DOGE founder Elon Musk tended to equate "fraud" with "wasteful spending," which she pointed out were two separate issues.

"You may not agree with what USAID does, you may not want to be investing American dollars in, you know, foreign fertilizer, for example — you may think that's the wrong thing to be spending money on, but that's not fraud," Miller said.

During the "60 Minutes" segment, correspondent Cecilia Vega spoke to experts like Miller, who argued that hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud were caused not solely by people falsely taking disability benefits, but also by international crime rings from hostile nations like Russia or China, through such actions as stealing government funds from disaster assistance.

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Though she said the "jury’s still out" on whether DOGE has been effective in combating fraud, Miller said she saw signs that it was addressing the right issues.

"To be honest, Elon Musk coming out and saying, ‘There is a huge amount of fraud,’ I welcome that message completely because, finally, someone is actually saying this," Miller said.

Last month, Musk and DOGE volunteer Antonio Gracias identified more than 2 million noncitizens who were issued Social Security numbers in FY2024. So far, they have found that approximately 1 million noncitizens were issued Social Security numbers in FY2025, which began in October and will end in September.

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