When it comes to the consequences of the Russia-Ukraine war, the impact on the world economy and politics, this war is a world war, Polish UN Ambassador Krzysztof Szczerski said in an interview with the Polish News Agency PAP.
“Although the Russia-Ukraine war has a limited military and regional dimension, it is also a global war in terms of its consequences and impact on the global economy and politics,” the diplomat said.
The consequences of Russia’s full-scale war are inflation, debt, food and energy prices, he added.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin was counting on that when he decided to invade Ukraine, Shchersky said.
Moscow is not at war with Ukraine, but is fighting to “change the structure of international relations and undermine the dominance of the Western world, its principles”, explained the Polish diplomat.
“These broad consequences of the war in this sense were, on the one hand, designed to make the world unable to resist Russian aggression and abandon Ukraine, or to quickly end its support under public pressure due to the consequences economics of war,” he added.
Despite the well-deserved criticisms voiced by the United Nations in relation to its failure in the context of the war, several important steps were taken last year, several important decisions were made, said Shcherskis.
“It was the United Nations – no other organization has such power – that determined the legal and political nature of what we are dealing with. It will play a fundamental role in the future in defining the terms of peace”, he stressed.
