The Ukraine conflict is the biggest threat of the century, putting the future of Western civilization at risk, Donald Tusk has said<\/p>\n
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine is also the West\u2019s war, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said. The most important task for EU leaders is to make people aware of the threat that Russia supposedly poses, he told the Warsaw Security Forum on Monday.
\nTusk has taken a particularly hardline stance on the conflict, in which Warsaw has been a key supporter of Kiev. Earlier this month, he complained that fellow Poles have developed \u201cantipathy\u201d towards Ukraine, which he blamed on Russia, while urging Polish politicians to \u201cstem this tide.\u201d
\nOn Monday, he said, \u201cthe biggest and most important task for European leaders today is to make Western societies aware\u201d that the Ukraine conflict is the most serious risk they face in the 21st century.
\n\u201cThis war is also our war,\u201d Tusk stated, claiming that it is \u201cof our fundamental interest,\u201d as a defeat would affect all of Western civilization from Poland to the US. He called for \u201csolidarity and unity\u201d within the EU and NATO to counter this.<\/p>\n
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The prime minister went on to speak about the planned \u201clarge-scale modernization\u201d of the Polish Army and called for a mobilization of both society and governments within the EU. Earlier this month, Warsaw accused Russia of sending a volley of drones into its airspace, which Moscow has denied.
\nMoscow has described the Ukraine conflict as a Western proxy war against Russia. Earlier this week, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the conflict was provoked by the EU and NATO in order to declare \u201can actual war\u201d on Russia.
\nSpeaking at the UN General Assembly in New York on Saturday, Lavrov dismissed claims by European officials that Russia is considering attacking NATO in the coming years. \u201cRussia has not had such intentions,\u201d Lavrov said, adding that Moscow invited NATO member states to work out \u201clegally binding security guarantees\u201d in Europe, but the offer was ignored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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