Polish FM hails Trump's statement on new sanctions on Russia
Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Radoslaw Sikorski has acknowledged the importance of US President Donald Trump's intention to impose more sanctions on Russia, should the president fail to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine.
On Thursday, Sikorski said during the Ukrainian Breakfast, an annual panel discussion organised during the World Economic Forum in Davos, that "the president of the United States is a leader of the free world, and Vladimir Putin is an outcast and an indicted war criminal for stealing Ukrainian children."
Journalists asked him about those words during a press briefing held later on Thursday. Sikorski said that he wanted to warn Trump that this was not the Putin that Trump had known from his first term as US president. He added that today, the world had to deal with Putin, who started a full-scale war in Europe and who was guilty of war crimes and atrocities, for whom the International Criminal Court in The Hague had issued an arrest warrant.
Asked whether he saw the possibility of negotiating peace in Ukraine this year, Sikorski answered that it depended on one man only, namely Putin.
In his assessment, the recent statement made by Trump about ending the war in Ukraine was very important and proved the US president's awareness of who started the war and who needed to experience negative pressure because of it.
On Wednesday, Trump wrote on the Truth Social platform: "If we don’t make a 'deal', and soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and various other participating countries." "We can do it the easy way, or the hard way - and the easy way is always better," he added. (PAP)
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