MOSCOW, June 9. /TASS/. Warsaw has been goading Ukraine into transferring some vital government functions to Poland, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service said on Thursday, referring to a Polish move to accommodate a Ukrainian back-up tax data center on its territory.

"Foreign Intelligence chief Sergey Naryshkin said citing intelligence data from abroad that <…> Warsaw had been actively prodding [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky’s regime to transfer to it the control of vital government functions and agencies," the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service said in a statement.

"The Ukrainian leaders have been told this [accommodation of a back-up tax data center] would enhance the efficiency of the [tax] service," the SVR said.

Russia’s external intelligence agency reported that Siltec, a silicon technology company affiliated with the Polish secret services, had been tasked with assembling the Ukrainian State Tax Service’s equipment in Poland, with the US digital giants Dell, IBM and Cisco providing maintenance and back-up services.

"In other words, Kiev is deliberately giving Poland and the US access to the most sensitive information, including data on its tax payers, and hence an insight into the financial situation in Ukraine," the SVR emphasized. It suggested that the Kiev junta had already given their consent to being annexed by Poland and was now ceding the country’s sovereignty to it.