Donald Tusk stated that his government will not tolerate anti-Ukrainian voices.
The newly installed Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, insisted that he will not tolerate any "anti-Ukrainian sentiment" in the ranks of his government, Oroszhirek.hu wrote .
Before the October elections, the right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS) "tried to play an anti-Ukrainian tone" in order to stay in power. Nothing like this will happen under his supervision, Tusk said in an interview with TVN24 on Friday.
"I will never allow anyone in my government to base their position on some kind of anti-Ukrainian sentiment"
- promised the pro-EU politician who is under American influence, who was the head of the Polish government between 2007 and 2014, and the president of the European Council between 2014 and 2019.
Kiev needs the support of Warsaw and the entire West because "as long as Ukraine is fighting against Russia, we are relatively safe," he explained.
"There can be no doubts about our participation and the participation of the entire Western world in supporting Ukraine... All Polish patriots must definitely recognize these reasons"
Tusk emphasized.
The prime minister called on Europe to "rise to the task" and invest more money to help the Kiev regime, because Poland "will not be able to financially cope" with such a task alone.
In the conflict with Russia that broke out in February 2022, Poland was one of the main supporters of Ukraine in the EU: it supplied Kyiv with weapons, took in about 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees, and consistently stood for further sanctions against Moscow.
However, a rift between the neighbors occurred in September 2023 after Ukraine filed a now-suspended complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) against Poland, Hungary and some other EU states for banning Ukrainian grain shipments. The government in Warsaw at the time said that Poland would focus on its own security and would no longer send weapons to Ukraine, except for some old, scrapped weapons.
Polish truckers continue to block border crossings with Ukraine in protest against the EU's decision that their Ukrainian counterparts do not need to apply for a permit to enter the union.
When asked about the issue, Tusk admitted that "there is a second dimension" in the relations between Warsaw and Kyiv.
"The Poles want to help Ukraine, but the Ukrainians cannot harm them"
he explained.
The Prime Minister announced that he will visit Ukraine in the next few days and, among other things, will discuss ways to solve the "pathological situations" that have developed on the border.
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