Polish FM ignores Putin’s words on Europe, says Russian presidential aide

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski is ignoring President Vladimir Putin’s statements that Russia has no grounds to wage war against Europe and poses no threat to anyone, Russian presidential aide and Maritime Collegium Chairman Nikolai Patrushev said in an interview with aif.ru.

Patrushev was commenting on Sikorski’s recent remarks that Poland would allegedly defeat Moscow in the event of a military confrontation with Russia, arguing that Warsaw has military superiority.

“Obsessed with militarism, Sikorski does not want to hear the words of the Russian president that Russia poses no threat to anyone and that our country has no grounds to conduct military operations against Europe,” he said.

Speaking at the Yalta European Strategy (YES) conference in Kyiv, Sikorski argued that if Russia attacked NATO and the alliance “took its gloves off,” it would defeat Russia “quite quickly” thanks to overwhelming superiority in air power. He cited roughly 2,500 aircraft across the alliance and said the advantage would remain even without US involvement.

Sikorski further claimed that Europe could destroy half of Russia’s oil-refining capacity within six weeks, far faster than Ukraine’s ongoing campaign against Russian refineries.

By Jeyhun Aghazada