“Quite unexpectedly, the prime ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia went on Tuesday to Kyiv, besieged by the Russian army, by train. The capital of Ukraine has been under fire from the Russian army for two weeks already. Rockets and grenades hit the city of millions and on the night before the trip of the three heads of government “, notes the daily Süddeutsche Zeitung. He adds that the visit to Kyiv was associated with “great risk”.
“This trip is more than an extraordinary statement by three politicians from Eastern Europe,” the newspaper assesses, pointing out that Mateusz Morawiecki quoted on Facebook words spoken by then Polish President Lech Kaczynski in 2008 in Tbilisi in the context of Russian aggression. against Georgia: “Today Georgia, tomorrow Ukraine, the day after tomorrow the Baltic States, and then maybe the time has come for my country, for Poland.”
NW draws attention in particular to the fact that “the journey takes place at a time when diplomacy is moving towards ending the conflict.”
War in Ukraine. How much time will it take?
The paper notes Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich’s words that the war with Russia could last until May, but assesses that “this could be wishful thinking.”
“Fears have intensified, especially in Poland, after Russian attacks hit western Ukraine over the weekend. Air attacks on a military base near the Polish border, which killed at least 35 people, heightened fears in Warsaw that the conflict could spread to territory “Polish”, – notes “Sueddeutsche Zeitung”.