“Putin’s threats are addressed not only to Ukraine, but to the entire European order,” Robert Pesch, a diplomat and former head of the NATO Information Office in Moscow, told Polish Radio 24.
Vladimir Putin called on Ukraine to abandon its plans to join NATO and demilitarize. He also warned that, if necessary, on the basis of the agreements concluded, Moscow would provide military support to the separatists from Donbass. Earlier, the President of Russia signed a decree ratified by parliament recognizing the independence of the separatist regions of Ukraine: Lugansk and Donetsk. He also asked the Senate for permission to use the army outside the country and received such permission.
On Polskie Radio 24, Robert Peszcz stated that “Putin is really obsessed with some such historical mission and his threats are formulated not only against Ukraine, but against the entire European order.” – It also refers directly to the readiness or requirement to return to the state – in terms of military deployment – before 1989, he estimated.
“Very serious consequences”
“Poland appears in Putin’s target in a very obvious way,” he said. – What is happening has very serious consequences. If not tomorrow, then the day after tomorrow,” he stressed.
Speaking about the consequences for Poland of a possible escalation of the conflict or the start of a war between Russia and Ukraine, he assessed that “a natural consequence may be migration movements that will directly accumulate in Poland.” “Because where the Ukrainians would have fled,” he pointed out and added that “the Baltic countries are relatively small, so we must be ready to accept a large wave of refugees.”