Russia suffered defeat in Afghanistan, it faces a similar fate in Ukraine, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski @radeksikorski tells @TVPWorld_com in an exclusive, wide-ranging interview. #Putin#Ukraine#Poland
"Vladimir Putin’s position in Ukraine today is similar to that of Leonid Brezhnev’s in Afghanistan," Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski [@radeksikorski] says on the latest episode of TVP World's On the Record with Adam Jasser [@AdamSJasser].
"The disparity of forces between Ukraine and Russia is, of course, much smaller than between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan. And our assistance to Ukraine is much bigger than our assistance to Afghanistan in the 1980s," Sikorski added.
“Let this serve as final proof that Polish and Ukrainian security are inseparably linked,” Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski (@sikorskiradek) said after a Russian drone strike hit a train traveling from Kyiv to Warsaw near the Polish border.
“Russia is so involved and unsuccessful in Ukraine that it is incapable of opening another front.”
Latvia’s Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs [@AndrisKulbergs] tells TVP World there’s no imminent military threat to the Baltic states.
But hybrid attacks are a different story. He warns that elections in Latvia, Estonia and Poland are prime targets for Russian destabilization operations.
"I think Trump doesn't want to irritate Vladimir Putin too much," said Former Deputy Director for Defense and Security Cooperation at NATO, Gerlinde Niehus [@GerlindeNiehus], in an interview with TVP World.
"Patriot interceptors is only one piece of a much bigger puzzle," she added.
"Without a free and democratic Belarus, there will be no lasting peace or security for the NATO alliance."
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya [@Tsihanouskaya], Chairperson of the United Transitional Cabinet of Belarus and Leader of the Belarusian Democratic Forces, said in On the Record with Adam Jasser [@AdamSJasser].
She argued that any future negotiations on Ukraine should also include Belarus, calling for the withdrawal of Russian troops and nuclear weapons from Belarusian territory to ensure lasting peace and security across the region.
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“I'm absolutely sure that [Belarus’s freedom] is much closer,” says Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya [@Tsihanouskaya] on the latest episode of On The Record with Adam Jasser [@AdamSJasser].
Tsikhanouskaya says opposition in Belarus is facing “many problems and challenges” but “the freedom of Belarus is a matter of time. Hopefully it will happen very soon.”
A free and democratic Belarus is essential to lasting peace and security in Europe.
Thank you, @AdamSJasser, for hosting me on @TVPWorld_com’s On The Record and helping bring the story of our fight for freedom to a wider audience.
Europe is about 9% of the world’s population but it accounts for well over half of all social spending worldwide. If you ask yourself why migrants keep flooding into Europe, this is the principal driver. If European governments continue with the current policy of simply absorbing those waves of migrants again and again, the #EU will fracture.
Q: What doesn't let you sleep at night?
SIKORSKI: Russia's unpredictability. Sick man with a gun is still man with a gun. That's why we are spending so much on defense, to convince Putin that conflict with Poland would cost him even more dearly than his criminal war vs Ukraine.
SIKORSKI: We must remember that there's long-term lavishly funded Russian operation to set nations against one another, in particular Poles against Ukrainians.
Russians think if they could set Poland against Ukraine this would upset Ukrainian logistics and help them win the war.
And we can have all kinds of opinions about the past, but geopolitics hasn’t changed. If Russia conquers Ukraine, it would be bad for Poland.
An unidentified object was detected in Polish airspace overnight and later the probable crash site of the object was found near the village of Tarnawa-Kolonia in the Lublin province, the Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces said on X.
Only Russia benefits from tensions between Poland and Ukraine -- that is the message of Polish Deputy PM @sikorskiradek to hotheads on both sides. Polish law enforcement will not tolerate anti-Ukrainian hate crimes, he vows in our conversation on @TVPWorld_com
"Russians think if they could set Poland against Ukraine [...] it would help them win the war," said Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski [@radeksikorski] in an exclusive episode of On the Rescord with TVP world's Adam Jasser [@AdamSJasser], warning that rising anti-Ukrainian sentiment among some Poles is exactly what Russia seeks to exploit.
They fled political persecution in Belarus, endured imprisonment, and started over in Poland.
Now, a Belarusian couple is transforming an abandoned farm into an eco-village in the Podlasie region, determined to build the life they once dreamed of.
TVP World’s Anastasiia Yanchenko visited the village of Mroya and tells their story⤵️
Dear Ambassador Pszczel, you are entitled to your opinion as much as our author is to his. This thoughtful article is based on facts and does not omit President Zelenskyy’s actions. It does however contain some uncomfortable observations. Don’t shoot the messenger.
Really poor commentary in @TVPWorld_com It misrepresents facts about the respective positions of 🇵🇱 and 🇺🇦 authorities on the issue of Volhynia massacre and completely ignores Zelenskyy’s cynical use of UPA for domestic political ends. Such one-sided text will not help anybody.👇