2024-06-12 10:48:55
This was said by Polish Overseas Minister Radosław Sikorski in the course of the Ukraine Reconstruction Convention in Berlin, the correspondent of “Ukrinform” experiences.
As the top of Polish diplomacy emphasised, historical past and geography are of nice significance for Poland and Ukraine. Russia has been making an attempt to colonize Ukraine for 300 years, to maintain it in its sphere of affect. Writing and talking Ukrainian was forbidden within the Russian Empire, and in the course of the Holodomor of the Nineteen Forties, the Soviet Union destroyed 5 million individuals. Ukrainian peasants.
“And now the identical is occurring within the occupied territories,” stated R. Sikorski.
He identified that 200 km north of Warsaw is a Russian enclave, the Kaliningrad area, the place, in keeping with the Polish authorities, “100 nuclear warheads are saved”, and Russia’s pro-Russian Belarus can be close by.
“Which means an assault on the EU is sort of seemingly,” said R. Sikorski.
He famous that the Russian missiles shelling the territory of Ukraine have repeatedly violated Polish airspace, flying deep into the nation’s territory. Due to this fact, the hazard to this a part of Europe is “larger than some assume”.
“The Russian missile fell 10 km from my home,” reminded the top of Polish diplomacy, referring to the incident within the neighborhood of Bydgoszcz within the winter of 2023.
Based on R. Sikorski, the Russian financial system has collapsed, and the Gazprom concern is struggling heavy losses.
“Putin is destroying his nation, he’s turning to Brazil and China to freeze the battle. Which means Putin understood: he won’t obtain his targets, he will be unable to occupy the entire of Ukraine and switch it right into a colony,” emphasised R. Sikorski.
He added that it might now be potential to revive Ukraine with its internationally acknowledged borders, “however we’ve got to be proactive.”
As already reported, a convention on the reconstruction of Ukraine is being held in Berlin.
2024-06-12 10:48:55