Sikorski advierte: "La guerra en Ucrania es un problema de toda Europa"

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Polonia afirma que la guerra en Ucrania afecta a toda Europa, no solo a los pa&#237;ses del este.

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00:00Delighted to be in Madrid at the next Big Five meeting.

00:07There were initiators in Warsaw some months ago,

00:12originally as Weimar, which is to say Germany, France, Poland,

00:17became Weimar Plus to include Spain, Italy, United Kingdom

00:23and the European institutions, the High Representative

00:27and the Commissioner for Defence.

00:31You know the agenda, the continuing Russian aggression against Ukraine.

00:39We are preparing a meeting and I am very glad that the main European countries

00:47appreciate that this is not just a problem for the eastern flank,

00:53but that Putin's aggressive intentions are a problem for all of Europe.

01:00And if it's a threat to all of Europe, then we need a European way of addressing it.

01:07Russia is not only bombing in Ukraine, it is conducting a hybrid war against all of us.

01:18Here in Spain there is disinformation, there are attempts at political manipulation,

01:24but in many countries we also have other elements of hybrid war

01:31just below the threshold of kinetic action.

01:36In Poland we've had arsons, we have espionage,

01:40we have the cuttings of energy and data cables on the sea,

01:48we have aggressive propaganda.

01:52All of this needs building European resilience

01:57and we need to treat defence, the rebuilding of our defence industries seriously.

02:07This is what I hope we will be discussing.

02:10Thank you.

02:11Minister, one question here.

02:14This is Juan Torino from W Radio.

02:19Of course we have seen the commitment of Poland in the help of Ukraine,

02:24but when will we see the first boots, the first European boots,

02:29the so-called peacekeepers in Ukraine land?

02:34Well, you're jumping ahead several steps.

02:38We don't yet have a ceasefire, let alone a peace to defend.

02:43The first thing we should keep in mind is that it is Ukraine that decides

02:51if and what foreign troops may be on its soil.

02:58Ukraine and no one else.

03:01There has not yet been an outcome of any talks.

03:07If Ukraine requests security guarantees in the form of foreign presence,

03:15then the international community will decide what form that might take.

03:19What certainly is not to be permitted is for Mr Putin to dictate

03:26who may or may not be in Ukraine.

03:30That's the whole point of this defensive war by Ukraine, that it's Kiev who decides.

03:36Also let me ask you, my colleagues asked me to tell you,

03:39what do you think about Spain not having a date to reach the 2% of GDP defence target?

03:48Well, we think it's been too long since the Wales NATO Summit

03:55where this recommendation was repeated.

04:03It is a fact that the closer you are to Russia,

04:09the more countries spend on defence, and you can guess why.

04:14Thank you.

04:17Translation by Elham Arabi

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