War in Ukraine: Russia allegedly planned “acts of terror” in the air across the world, Warsaw warns

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday January 15 that Russia planned “acts of terror” in air transport around the world, accusing Moscow of organizing sabotage and hijacking on Polish soil and beyond . Donald Tusk made the statement in the presence of the president of neighboring Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, who came to Poland for a series of talks, days before the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump.

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Poland, a member of the EU and NATO, has been one of Ukraine’s main allies since Russia launched a war against kyiv in February 2022. “Without going into detail, I can confirm the fears that Russia has planned acts of terror in the air, not only against Poland, but also against airlines around the world,” Donald Tusk said during a joint press briefing with his guest Ukrainian.

According to him, “acts of sabotage, different versions of the war that Russia has declared on the entire civilized world, and not only on Ukraine, require joint action.”

“Our common strength”

Donald Tusk, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the EU, has promised to do everything to “overcome the impasse” in Ukraine’s European accession process. “The Polish presidency will overcome the impasse that has emerged in recent months. And we will work with Ukraine and our European partners, without preconditions, to accelerate the accession process as much as possible,” he said. declared.

For his part, Volodymyr Zelensky stressed that “the sooner Ukraine is in the EU, the sooner Ukraine becomes a member of NATO, the more we act together, the sooner the whole of Europe will obtain certainty geopolitics that it needs. “Russia will not go where there is our integration, our common strength,” he added.

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Volodymyr Zelensky has increased his meetings with supporters of Ukraine before Donald Trump’s return to the White House. The Republican has promised to quickly end the fighting upon his return to office next week, raising fears in Ukraine that it will be forced to make major territorial concessions in exchange for peace.

“Problem to solve”

The Polish and Ukrainian heads of state also spoke about resolving a decades-old dispute over the World War II massacres of Poles in Volyn, a city now in western Ukraine. Donald Tusk, whose ruling pro-EU alliance faces May’s presidential election, is under pressure from nationalists to have the victims of the massacres exhumed.

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“There is a fairly obvious problem to be resolved, namely the need of Polish families to bury with dignity their loved ones who were victims of the Volyn massacre and, in general, this principle should decide and apply to all parties” , declared the Polish Prime Minister. “The fact that we understand each other on this issue, that we are starting to talk about it normally and that we have taken certain steps, yes, this deserves to be called a breakthrough,” he said.

Neither side specified what concrete actions had been taken.