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A Russian attack against any member of NATO would end in Russia’s inevitable defeat, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski declared on Thursday in the lower house of the Warsaw parliament, in his speech describing the goals of Polish diplomacy this year according to MTI.

According to Sikorski, it is not the West that should be worried about a possible conflict with Russia, but the other way around. It is worth reminding this not to create a sense of danger in the Russians, but to show that an attack by Russia against any member of the North Atlantic Alliance would end with Moscow’s “inevitable defeat” – declared the head of Polish diplomacy in the Sejm.

He underlined: the NATO defense alliance. He pointed out that the military capabilities of the alliance are three times greater than those of Russia, the air force of the NATO countries is three times greater, and the navy is four times greater.

The Russian aggression against Ukraine “has shaken the world order so far”now we are faced with “a simple alternative”: or “With the defeated Russian army stationed beyond the eastern border of Ukraine” we will be dealing with either a “victorious (Russian) army on the eastern border of Poland” – said Sikorski. He expressed hope that “thanks to the efforts of the civilized world, Putin will lose the war”.

He emphasized: Poland is ready to cooperate with “a non-imperial Russia”, which respects the right of self-determination of other nations. According to the minister, such a Russia is symbolized by the murdered Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and other political prisoners.

“The Donets basin is Ukraine, Crimea is Ukraine,” he referred to the territories annexed by Russia, and then he said about the lands that once belonged to Poland and are now Ukrainian: “Lviv is Ukraine, Volhynia, the former Eastern Galicia is also Ukraine “. “Lviv sze Ukraina”, he emphasized in Ukrainian.

He also noted that Poles do not forget certain “painful past events”and they expect cooperation from the Ukrainian side in the search for historical truth.