Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk assured this Friday that “the threat of a global conflict is serious and real,” following Russia’s launch of a hypersonic ballistic missile against a Ukrainian city the day before.
“The threat of a global conflict is really serious and real,” emphasized the Polish head of the Executive at a teachers’ conference in Warsaw.
“We feel that the unknown is approaching. “None of us know the end of this conflict, but we know that it is now taking on very dramatic dimensions and the events of the last few hours demonstrate it,” Tusk added.
Tusk’s statements come in the context of the Russian attack with a hypersonic ballistic missile, which responded to the decision of the United States and the United Kingdom to allow Ukraine to attack Russian territory with long-range Western weapons.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova warned on Thursday that the US anti-missile base located in Redzikowo, in northern Poland, is considered “a priority target” by Russia “for possible neutralization.”
Tusk already spoke out about the possibility of a global armed conflict in March, just after a wave of Russian attacks against Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
On that occasion, the Polish president urged European leaders to increase their defense budgets and noted that Europe must “be prepared for a new era, the pre-war era.”
This Friday in Warsaw, the Polish Prime Minister recalled that, at a European Union summit, the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, asked his counterparts to stop using the word “war” in their statements, something to which Tusk responded that in his part of Europe, the war on the Old Continent was no longer an abstract idea.
Poland, which borders Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, has been a leading voice calling on NATO members to spend more on defence, and is allocating 4.7% of its gross domestic product (GDP) to strengthen its armed forces in 2025.
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