Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk assured this Friday that “the threat of global conflict is serious and real”, after the launch the day before by Russia of a hypersonic ballistic missile against a Ukrainian city.
“The threat of global conflict is truly serious and real,” stressed the head of the Polish executive at a conference of teachers in Warsaw.
“We feel that the unknown is approaching. “None of us knows 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 this,” Tusk added.
Tusk’s statements come against the backdrop 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-term Western weapons. scope.
The spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, warned on Thursday that the American anti-missile base located in Redzikowo, in northern Poland, was considered “a priority target” by Russia “with a view to possible neutralization.
Tusk had already raised the possibility of global armed conflict in March, just after a wave of Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
On this occasion, the Polish president urged European leaders to increase their defense budgets and stressed that Europe must “prepare for a new era, the pre-war era.”
This Friday in Warsaw, the Polish Prime Minister recalled that, during a European Union summit, the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, had asked his counterparts to stop using the word “war” in their statements, to which Tusk responded that in In this part of Europe, the war on the Old Continent was no longer an abstract idea.
Poland, a country bordering Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, has been a leading voice calling on NATO members to spend more on defense and spends 4.7% of its gross domestic product (GDP) to strengthen its armed forces in 2025.
