Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki believes that the Russian army will attack the Ukrainian capital again. “According to all the information I have from Ukraine, I know that there will be another Russian offensive, probably in March or April, and it will be a very heavy one,” he told Bild.
He thinks that Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin not only hates Ukraine, but also wants to show his people that he is a long-term player who never gives up. “And he will attack Kiev again, yes, I have this fear,” Morawiecki said in the interview.
Putin will probably want to wait for the mud and swamps and less well-prepared ground to dry up before the offensive. At the moment, the ground is not suitable for heavy tanks and artillery, as the winter is quite mild at the moment, the Polish Prime Minister explained.
Morawiecki said of Putin’s army that Russian resources are “very large”. “He has a lot of ammunition, a lot of guns and a lot of people.” Nuclear threats are coming from Russia, Morawiecki stressed. “Because the Kremlin wants to threaten and paralyze us all.”
The Polish prime minister has ruled out negotiations with the Russian president. With such conversations, Putin actually achieves his goals, because he shows the rest of the world and his own people: “Look, I am in great demand, everyone wants to talk to me, everything depends on me.” That is the message Putin passed on after such talks, Morawiecki told the Bild.
The Polish Prime Minister again denounced Germany’s Russia policy. It was wrong to put all your eggs in the Russian basket and make the entire strategy dependent on Russian gas and Russian raw materials. Many people had expected a complete change from Germany.
“But we see Germany trying to be half pregnant, think a little differently and support Ukraine,” Morawiecki said. “But at the same time – I mean the government and the chancellor in particular – they still seem to believe that we should go back to doing business with Russia as usual.” He does not believe this will ever be possible with this quasi-totalitarian regime. “Russia should change completely,” said the Polish prime minister.
At a meeting in Latvia on Tuesday, the foreign ministers of the Baltic states and Poland discussed the joint response to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. “It is our four countries that provide Ukraine with the most arms, equipment and ammunition, if we count our efforts per capita,” said Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau. “Our philosophy is to help Ukraine as much as possible and as quickly as possible.”
EU and NATO member Poland, which borders Ukraine, is arming itself against a threat from Moscow. For example, last year Warsaw ordered 250 Abrams main battle tanks from the US and signed a billion-dollar deal with South Korea for the supply of 400 main battle tanks and 212 self-propelled howitzers.
The Polish Armed Forces currently has 164,000 soldiers, including 36,000 members of voluntary internal security associations. The army is expected to grow to 250,000 professional soldiers and 50,000 homeland security personnel in the coming years.
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