“Putin dreams” to return to the borders of the former Soviet Union “but for over 11 years he has been fighting in Donbass and has not been able to take it entirely, let alone the rest. We all believed that the Russian armed forces were the second in the world. I am not. Indeed, the first invasion body in 2022 has already been destroyed. Imperial dreams do not correspond to reality ». This was stated in an interview with Corriere della Sera, the Polish Foreign Minister, Radoslaw Sikorski at the same time: «We are not at war with Russia. But it is our right to operate to stop the invasion of Ukraine ».
At the Kremlin, which accuses NATO and Europe of being already in fact at war with Russia, he replies by observing how Ukraine is “attacked by a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. And the invasion was sentenced by the vast majority of the UN General Assembly. We are simply taking countermeasures that the Community of Nations is called to choose in compliance with international law”.
On the risk of direct clash with Moscow it clarifies: «Russian drones and missiles should not fly to Ukrainian aerial space. They are weapons guided remotely or in free fall that indiscriminately affect the population. We should intervene when those flying weapons endanger our skies ». In conclusion Sikorski also talks about the US president Donald Trump saying he did not think that he has abandoned the defense of Europe: “There is a common military apparatus”.