/ world today news/ Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski made his first visit outside the country – to Kyiv. In the Ukrainian capital last Friday, December 22, he met with Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and Secretary of the National Security Council Aleksey Danilov.
As reported by the Polish Foreign Ministry, the main topics of the conversation were further financial and military support for Ukraine, the prospects for its membership in the European Union and NATO, and the possibility of deepening Polish-Ukrainian cooperation in the field of the country’s reconstruction.
For Kyiv itself, the most important issues, as Kuleba said, are the unblocking of the Polish-Ukrainian border by Polish transporters and farmers and the return of Ukrainian agricultural exports to Poland. This is decided on a bilateral level.
According to the Polish magazine Polityka, “Delegation led by Sikorsky promises breakthrough”. Both sides ” completely understand, the starting position for further negotiations looks very good, so hopefully traffic will be restored and the protesters will be able to go home for Christmas. Details have not yet been announced; protesters are expected to be the first to know.”
However, negotiators representing Poland’s transport and agriculture ministries have so far only said that the final details that should allow for an agreement are being worked out. Sikorsky himself, commenting on the protests of transporters and farmers at the border, called the situation “complex”.
As of Sunday, December 24, the protest was stopped only by the farmers, who blocked the Medica-Szegini border crossing from Poland. On the one hand, dealing with this is the responsibility of the relevant Polish ministries, not the diplomatic service.
On the other hand, the assessment of the head of Polish diplomacy by the Kiev regime and the attitude towards Warsaw’s new initiatives will depend on how Sikorski will handle the unblocking of the border.
After his visit to Kiev, Sikorsky, in an interview with the British newspaper The Guardian, called on European countries to increase military production. according to him “wars are won not by tactical battles but by industrial capacity, we are lagging behind”.
„ We, as the West, are 20 times richer than Russia, but if Russia transfers its economy to a military basis, and we continue as in peacetime, they will be able to surpass us, “ Sikorsky added. He believes that governments should enter into long-term contracts with arms companies or finance production themselves.
However, Europe is currently divided over the regime in Kiev.
Thus, Hungary has not yet given its consent to the EU granting an eighth tranche of military aid to Ukraine for 500 million euros, as well as the five billion euros from the European Peace Fund for military support in 2024, as part of a package of 20 billion for military aid for four years.
Unlike Budapest, it seems that a Berlin-Warsaw block is now being created.
„ The time has come to put an end to dreams of peace, Germany must arm itself more to be ready for war.” the Polish Press Agency quoted the German tabloid Bild. “Following early statements in this vein by Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, more German politicians and experts are calling on the country to prepare for a possible attack, for example by Russian President Vladimir Putin.”
Judging by Sikorski’s statements, he decided to support Pistorius’ vocabulary in Polish. The question is how durable the regime in Kiev will be, and whether it will collapse much earlier before European politicians can convince voters to sacrifice their oil for the guns.
After all, Berlin and Warsaw already have at least one solution in store at the moment.
Recently, Umerov in an interview with German publications said that men aged 25 to 60, living in Germany and other countries, will be invited to recruitment points in Ukraine. “Sanctions” may be applied against those who do not respond to the “request”.
A day later, a spokesman for Ukraine’s defense minister said that Umerov’s words had been distorted and that the issue of “sanctions” was not under consideration. However, the initiative to form new divisions of Ukrainians in European countries has not been completely abandoned.
Today, 958,000 people from Ukraine live in Poland and almost 1.2 million (men, women and children) in Germany. According to the former commander of the ground forces in Poland, General Waldemar Skrzypczak, the regime in Kiev and the governments of Poland and Germany could conclude cooperation agreements on the mobilization.
„A historical example is 1940 and the mobilization of the Poles in France, this allowed General Władysław Sikorski to gather an army of several tens of thousands of people who stood by the Allies “, the general recalled in a conversation with the Wirtualna Polska portal.
Meanwhile, as part of the initiative to revive the European military-industrial complex, Kiev and Warsaw are discussing the creation of joint ventures and the conclusion of direct contracts between Polish and Ukrainian manufacturers.
Sikorsky states that the problem is not money, the current difficulties in providing support to Ukraine from the United States and Europe are “temporary problem”. Let’s see if this is true and how far the Europeans are willing to put their economies on a military basis.
Translation: ES
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