🇵🇱 Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski:
Russia is escalating because Russia's leadership is panicking. After more than four years of a senseless colonial war, Putin has achieved nothing.
He's running out of troops and resources and needs a pretext to mobilize. His unnecessary war has killed or wounded one and a half million Russians.
To the representatives of the Russian Federation, I have this to say: You have been trying to conquer Donbas for over 12 years, and Kyiv for over four.
You have been stopped by heroic Ukraine, a country with one tenth of Russia's GDP.
But Poland has almost half of your GDP. Europe has 10 times your GDP. NATO has 25 times your GDP.
You can still kill a lot of people, but you cannot win.
This morning, the Russians struck a regular intercity minibus near Nikopol with an FPV drone. As of now, five people have been reported killed, and seven others are receiving medical care. No military rationale, just another atrocity. My condolences to the families and loved ones… Russian attacks on logistics and critical infrastructure continue unabated – the locomotive of a regular passenger train was struck in the Mykolaiv region. A railway station and a diesel locomotive were damaged, but the Ukrzaliznytsia team handled the situation well – they warned people in time, and no one was hurt. Nearly 170 passengers were evacuated. An electric locomotive in Kovel was also struck. In Kyiv, firefighting efforts have been ongoing since last night. The Kherson, Donetsk, and Poltava regions also came under attack.
Every one of these strikes affects the lives of ordinary people, who must be protected by forcing Russia to stop its asinine war. And gifts to the aggressor in the form of eased sanctions will certainly do nothing to advance peace. And right now, in these very days, the United States Congress is considering an important Lindsey Graham bill that could send the right signals and help take the right steps toward genuine peace. Discussions are also underway in the EU on extending sanctions against Russia for its war. When such savage Russian killings occur every day, it is important that sanctions measures in response to the war be strong. This is not the time to ease the pressure. Now is the time to do everything to ensure that diplomacy succeeds through strength. I thank everyone who understands this and is helping.
To mówicie, że to nie nasza wojna i daleko wyznawcy tępej propagandy? No, to jeszcze moment, jeszcze chwilka i nie skończy się na alarmach, które tak was męczą, ani na rakiecie w polu, ani na dronach wabikach. "Z czego się śmiejecie? Z samych siebie się śmiejecie" (tak, wiem, to Gogol, ale do nich trzeba po ichniemu). Miłej kawusi!
An unelected American 🇺🇸 with no diplomatic experience is telling me to surrender my home, and telling Ukraine 🇺🇦 to surrender even more land, to an imperialist, fascist dictator committing acts of terrorism every day.
I never thought I’d see the day, but here we are, Jared Kushner, negotiating away somebody else’s country.
A missile just crashed into the building I was sleeping in. Built up residential complex intentionally attacked in Odesa. The building is still on fire. Barbaric terrorism.
💔 Kyiv region. Today.
Another Ukrainian civilian murdered by russian terrorists.
She was 60, simply picking vegetables in the yard of her own home.
Her only crime was being Ukrainian.