Polish Foreign Minister Radoslav Sikorski said today that Poland will in no way advise Ukraine on which territories it could give up in the interest of peace and that only Ukraine can decide what compromises it is willing to make to end the war with Russia.
"Ukraine alone has the right to decide what compromises it is willing to make to end this war. My thesis is that when the war ends, Russia will suffer an economic hangover and will not be able to start a war again so easily," Sikorski said in an interview with the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.
The Polish minister recalled the infamous policy of pre-war British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who, at the conference of European powers in Munich in 1938, gave his blessing to Hitler's Germany to dismember Czechoslovakia, convinced that this would avoid World War II.
"If someone wants to be the Neville Chamberlain of this war, let them publicly advise Ukraine which territories it should give up. We will not do that," said Sikorski.
Polish President Andrzej Duda said today that Ukraine will have to make some concessions, however, Sikorski said tonight in an interview with Polish private television TVN24 that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio assured him that the US proposal did not mention that Ukraine should give up Crimea.
Appearing on TVN24, Sikorski warned that it is no secret that the US administration is impatient because negotiations to end the war in Ukraine are making little progress and that it is threatening to give up, but that the US has not yet defined what giving up means.
"Ukraine has enough capacity to wage war this year. However, there would be greater civilian casualties. Because the main defense against ballistic missiles is the American Patriot system. This is a test for Europe. As Europe, we must stand on our own two feet. And then we will not only defend ourselves from Putin, but we will also gain the respect of Washington," said Sikorski.
Previously, the Polish minister told Gazeta Wyborcza that he did not think a new Yalta was possible today.
"Yalta meant that there were no rules and that the stronger decided the fate of the weaker. At that time, the Central European states either practically did not exist or were recent allies of Hitler. Today, the entire eastern wing has its own statehood, makes sovereign decisions and arms itself to the teeth. If someone makes some decisions that are harmful to us, we will simply not respect them," said Sikorski.
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