Polish Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Radosław Sikorski, during a speech in the Sejm, called for the country to prepare for a possible conflict on the scale of the wars of the 20th century. This is reported by RMF24.
In his speech, delivered in the presence of President Karol Nawrocki, former President Aleksander Kwasniewski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk, as well as other high-ranking officials and diplomats, Sikorski spoke about the war in Ukraine and the security challenges for Poland and all of Europe in the new geopolitical conditions.
He recalled the assessments of European intelligence agencies, according to which Russia may soon decide to attack NATO countries. The minister also drew attention to the growing number of sabotage and suspicious incidents in Europe, in particular in Poland.
Separately, he mentioned the case of a massive incursion of Russian drones into Polish airspace and the disinformation campaign led by Russia aimed at shifting responsibility to Ukraine and NATO, as well as similar information manipulations after the sabotage on the railway line near Lublin.
Sikorski stressed that the country must be ready for a war “of the scale that our grandfathers and great-grandfathers saw.” According to him, the Kremlin will most likely continue to “test the limits”, so Poland must strengthen unity and increase its resilience, in particular to manipulative information influence.
The minister emphasized that awareness of danger can both paralyze society and mobilize it, but Poland cannot afford “paralysis” or reassuring statements that this is “not its war”. He also recalled that among the civilians who died as a result of the war was a Polish citizen, seven-year-old Amelia, who died with her mother in Ternopil.
“Putin does not want peace, only surrender… If Ukraine were defeated, the threat from Russia would not only not decrease, but on the contrary, would increase,” Sikorsky said.
He added that possible Russian actions against NATO’s eastern flank states would have an extremely high price for them. Separately, the head of Polish diplomacy emphasized that Europe has every right to participate in negotiations regarding the Russian-Ukrainian war, since it has actually replaced the United States as a key donor of aid to Ukraine, and also because the security of the European continent is directly at stake.
