“I just received a phone call from Chancellor Scholz, who gave me an account of his conversation with V. Putin. I was pleased to hear that the Chancellor not only unequivocally condemned Russian aggression, but also repeated the Polish position: nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine“- the Prime Minister said on social media.
War in Ukraine. Zakharova responds to Tusk
The spokeswoman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to comment on the entry of the head of the Polish government. “What hellish cynicism,” she began Marija Zakharova.
“It's all thanks to effort NATO “'talks about Ukraine' may soon be, as they say, 'without Ukrainians,' whom the West is destroying with its arms supplies and bans on negotiations,” she wrote in her classic style.
Zakharova does not indicate who wants to talk “without Ukrainians”, nor does she explain why the prime minister's words are “cynicism”. The Polish authorities, both during the PiS and PO governments, emphasized the need conducting peace negotiations together with Kiev.
– We are an independent country. And we during this war, our people, me personally we are negotiating with the United States and with Trump and Bidenwith European leaders. These negotiations proved that The “sit down and listen” rhetoric doesn't work for us – emphasized the President of Ukraine.
Poland on the role of Ukraine. There will be a meeting in Warsaw
In turn, during Friday's briefing in Katowice, the head of Polish diplomacy was asked about the conversation between Scholz and Putin.
– Very good, that chancellor German almost immediately he reported this conversation to the Polish Prime Minister and from what the German Chancellor says, it follows that he presented something that Poland agrees with. Namely that no decisions can be madethat concern Ukraine, without Ukraine, Sikorski noted.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs also announced that one of the results of the conversation will be next week's meeting in Warsaw, in the format Weimar Triangle Plus.