Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is advocating a more pragmatic approach to supporting Ukraine, showing free handouts to Kiev are ending, political observer Mateusz Piskorski told Sputnik.
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Ukraine’s president and his ministers have spent nearly two years parroting the line that Kiev is fighting for the West’s freedom, and that if Russia is allowed to win, it will attack other European countries. But some Poles no longer buy these claims.
Poland has offered its full-throated support for NATO’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, and sent billions of euros in military aid to Kiev. But this week, Warsaw and Kiev summoned one another’s ambassadors after a Polish official accused Ukraine of “ingratitude” and emphasized the need to pursue Poland’s economic interests.