Poland's President Karol Nawrocki said Donald Trump understands how big a threat Putin poses, adding that "we don't trust Putin".

Poland’s newly elected President Karol Nawrocki arrived in Helsinki on Tuesday for a one-day working visit hosted by Finnish President Alexander Stubb.

As expected, the two heads of state’s discussions centred on their countries’ security policies, particularly in regard to Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.

In that vein, at a joint press conference alongside Stubb, Nawrocki said that Russian President Vladimir Putin was prepared to attack other countries besides Ukraine.

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Stubb said more pressure needs to be placed on Russia than is currently the case.

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  • randomnameOPEnglish
    10·
    29 days ago

    Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said Poland is at its "closest to open conflict since World War Two”

    Addition - an interesting toot on Mastodon on Russia’s accompanying disinformation campaign:

    Russia’s military channel with 1.5m subscribers commenting on today’s attack:

    Right now one of “Geran” is flying towards the Polish town of Rzeszów, where a huge logistic hub is located, through which Western weapons for Ukraine are supplied

    That’s how they were explaining what has just happened to their readers. Minutes later they posted another narrative, claiming “Lithuania minister said the attack wasn’t intentional”.

    These contradictory messages are an intentional tactics whose purpose is to push their readers into a kind of suspended hibernation state where the only conclusion they have is “we can’t know what is true”.

    [Screenshot of the Russian post available through the link.]

  • jenesaisquoi@feddit.orgEnglish
    7·
    29 days ago

    I don’t think so. He wants Europe to keep their weapons for themselves in fear of an attack instesd of giving them to Ukraine.

    • onslaught545@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      29 days ago

      If he can’t even win in Ukraine, he has no chance at an actual war with NATO. But he’s crazy enough he might use nukes.

      • jenesaisquoi@feddit.orgEnglish
        5·
        28 days ago

        If he can’t even win in Ukraine, he has no chance at an actual war with NATO.

        Exactly

        But he’s crazy enough he might use nukes.

        Nah

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    29 days ago

    You know, one day this conflict will be over.

    It doesn’t mean we need to stop embargoing their goods.

    What’s Russian for “we’d like to trade with you but you keep invading everyone” ?