Sikorski responded to Vladimir Putin’s “peace proposals” on Saturday, in which the Russian President laid out his conditions for ending the war in Ukraine.
Putin said that Russia will only end the war if Kyiv withdraws from the four occupied regions in eastern and southern Ukraine, and abandons its NATO aspirations.
However, the Polish Foreign Minister argued that if Russia could make such demands, then Ukraine also had the right to assert its own conditions.
Sikorski said:“If Vladimir Putin makes peace conditional on Ukraine promising not to join NATO then surely Ukraine has the right to demand that Russia doesn’t make a military alliance with China.”
“Russia’s neighbors also have security interests,” he added.
Polish President Andrzej Duda also commented on Saturday that the demands made by the Russian President were “staggering,” showing the entire international community “the essence of Russian brutal imperialism.”
Putin’s “peace plan,” presented on Friday, was also rejected by Kyiv, which called it a
“complete sham.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasized that Putin’s ceasefire offer was an ultimatum that could not be trusted.
