No peace in Ukraine without US, says Polish defence minister
The Polish defence minister has said that it will be impossible to achieve a peace solution ending the Russian war against Ukraine without negotiations attended by the US.
"I would like the entire alliance to call for the return to US-Ukrainian talks," Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, who is also a deputy prime minister, said in Krakow, southern Poland, on Saturday in a comment to the failure of a Friday meeting of US President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House.
"I believe that there must be fewer emotions, fewer emotional evaluations and more rational attitudes," Kosiniak-Kamysz said, adding that Poland's reason of state should always come first.
"What is needed now is the return to US-Ukrainian talks," he repeated.
The US and Ukrainian leaders clashed in an extraordinary exchange at the White House over the war with Russia and failed to sign an agreement to jointly develop Ukraine's rich natural resources.
Kosiniak-Kamysz declared that Poland had been supporting Ukraine and would continue to do so but underlined that it would be impossible to find a peace solution and to end fighting without negotiations attended by the US.
"More dialogue, fewer emotions," he said.
Kosiniak-Kamysz made the statement during Saturday's observances of the Day of Remembrance of the Cursed Soldiers or Polish fighters who stood up against the communist rule imposed by Moscow after World War Two.
The Cursed Soldiers waged a clandestine armed struggle against Poland's communist state well into the 1950s. (PAP)
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