Radosław Sikorski: Ukraine is able to defend itself by the end of the year

Sikorski referred in this way to the suggestion of the journalist CNN Fareda Zararia that the US is trying to impose Ukraine negotiated with Russia system. The minister estimated that the American administration is still trying to feel the ground under his feet and that he consults with allies. He also added that, unlike the 1938 system, from Munich imposed Czechoslovakia, Ukraine may not agree to its conditions because it is able to fight by itself.

“Ukraine can fight our European support alone for the rest of this year and I think Putin must take this into account,” he said. He also added that Europe is determined to support Ukraine, “whatever happens”. He also assessed that the Russian economy is in worse condition than it may seem.

When asked if After talking to the Secretary of US, Marco Rubio He believes that Ukraine will receive security guarantees from the USA, Sikorski replied that Ukraine has already guaranteed in the form of the Budapest Memorandum, and added that the best guarantee for Ukraine is its almost a millionth army, resisting Russian aggression.

– If you asked me three years ago, where Ukraine and Russia would be in this war in three years, I think that none of us would guess that Russia would only win 20 percent of Ukraine's territory – said Sikorski. “But if we have a lasting room, it must be one with which both sides can live,” he added.

The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also received a question about the USA alternative resolution of the General Assembly submitted UN On the third anniversary of the war in which there is no words about “Russian aggression” or its condemnation. The State Department described the American project as “historical”. However, Sikorski stated that “it should be called names.”

Referring to the meeting with Rubio, two meetings with national security advisor Mike Waltz and the President's Sunday conversation Donald Trump and Andrzej Dudathe minister assessed that nothing has changed when it comes to US guarantees for NATO and the Polish-American alliance. He added that he agreed with Trump as to the need to increase the involvement of European countries, but noted that this process is already underway.

Sikorski also commented on a contract negotiated by Kiev and Washington, which is to give the US shares in revenues from the operation of Ukrainian natural deposits and, according to President Volodymyr Zelanski, assumes that the US would get two dollars for each dollar of future US help. The head of Polish diplomacy noted that, according to European estimates, the EU spent more money to help Ukraine ($ 140 billion against “just over 100 billion” from the USA). He added, however, that maybe this means that America wants to continue to support Ukraine, which is a good signal.

Sikorski also referred to the suggestion of Fareeda, the fact that the purpose of the current administration in talks about the end of the war is to break up the alliance of Russia and China. In the 70s, President Richard Nixon and his secretary of state Henry Kissinger did it, using the split in the relations of the PRC and the USSR to get closer to Beijing at the expense of the Soviets.

– Well, an attempt to reverse what Kissinger did is obviously a tempting intellectual structure. But I think that with the current solidarity of the dictators between Vladimir Putin And the chairman of the 11th Jinping is unlikely to succeed. Let's do what can be achieved, i.e. support Ukraine, restore Russia, withdraw from Ukraine, and then we will have a more peaceful world with more reasonable Russia and more reasonable China – said Sikorski.

Asked if Europe would approach China, if America withdraws its commitment from the continent, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs mentioned that he was as a MEP co -author of the EU policy towards the Middle King Confrontation where necessary. ” He noted, however, that the coordination of policy towards China with Washington is one of the unwritten agreement between Europe and the United States.

– The transatlantic system is that United States They help us scare away Putin, in return we buy American products and express solidarity from the USA in many international issues, including their competition with China, and of course this arrangement works both ways – he noted.

Sikorski met with the Secretary of US State Marco Rubio on Friday. He appeared at him at a press conference.

As he said, the topics of the talks were “current affairs of war and peace in Europe, but also cooperation in such distant countries as North Korea, Venezuela, Kuba, Iran.”

He said that Rubio accepted his invitation to Poland. He stated that “it was a strong conversation between close allies.”