Poland’s new foreign minister has urged Warsaw’s Western allies to step up aid to Ukraine to prevent the fighting from spilling over into other territories.
Radoslaw Sikorski outlined three steps in a speech at the Atlantic Council thinktank in Washington – back Ukraine with ammunition, invest in security deterrence and deepen alliances to secure a lasting peace from what he called “a position of strength”.
“We need to take these steps not to escalate the war in Ukraine, but to prevent an even bigger global conflict, which currently slides ever closer towards our borders,” he said.
He also called on the Republican Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, who has so far blocked passage of a bill that includes $60bn (£47bn) in new funding for Ukraine, to allow a vote.
“If America cannot come together with Europe and enable Ukraine to drive Putin back, I fear that our family of democratic nations will start to break up,” Mr Sikorski added.
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