“Putin is ready to invade other countries.” The warning of the President of Poland, which indicates the “only leader of the free world” that can force Russia to negotiate
A Russian system of intercontinental ballistic missiles Yars RS-24 crosses the Red Square in Moscow during the night training for the Victorian Day military parade. On May 3, 2017. Photo: Vasily Maximov / AFP / Profimedia
Poland and Finland do not trust Vladimir Putin's “good intentions,” Polish President Karol Nawrocki said on Tuesday, visiting the northern country, at a common press conference with his Finnish counterpart Alexander Stubb, AFP reports.
The two NATO member countries are on maximum alert after the invasion of Ukraine by Moscow troops, in February 2022. Poland borders with Russian Kaliningrad, as well as with Ukraine and Belarus, an allied country of Moscow, while Finland has a long border of 1,340 kilometers with Russia, notes News.ro.
“In course, of course, a long-term peace, a permanent peace, which is necessary for our regions, we believe that Vladimir Putin is ready to invade other countries,” said Polish nationalist President Karol Nawrocki, who took his position last month.
“This is why we develop our armed forces, partnership and relationships with our allies,” he added, without giving concrete examples.
Nawrocki also estimated that the “security architecture” from the entire region has changed and, recently returned from the White House, has taken care that US President Donald Trump is the “only leader of the free world” that can force Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Last week, when he received Nawrocki in the Oval Office, Trump denied a possible reduction of US troops in Poland and did not even exclude the sending of additional soldiers.
Russian-Balaruse military exercises that triggered the alarm in Poland
On the other hand, in Warsaw, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on Tuesday to close his country border with Belarus, in response to the Russian-Bellarus common military maneuvers. “For reasons of national security, we will close the borders with Belarus, including railway crossings, in connection with Zapad maneuvers, starting Thursday night, at midnight,” said the head of the Polish government, qualifying this exercise as “aggressive”.
“For reasons of national security”. The decision taken by Poland, shortly before two of his neighbors start “very aggressive maneuvers”
According to Tusk, the goal of the Russo-Belarus exercise is to simulate the occupation of the “Corridor Suwalki”, which stretches along the border between Poland and Lithuania and is surrounded by the Russian enclave Kaliningrad and Belarus.
Often considered a “vulnerable point” of NATO, the corridor could be the first target of a hypothetical Russian attack.
In August, Belarus said that during the Zapad maneuvers, he will train to launch Russian rockets.
The Oreșnik model is a medium -range ballistic missile, already used in Ukraine, which is capable of transporting nuclear loads.
Lithuania had already closed at the end of August the aerial space above certain parts of its border with Belarus, after military drones violated its territory twice in July, as well as in the perspective of Russian-Wellaruse military exercises.
