Polish FM reveals limits of support for Ukraine

Warsaw has no intention of sending its own troops to fight Russia, Radoslaw Sikorski has said in a prank video call

Poland has “zero willingness” to send troops to defend Ukraine, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has told a pair of Russian pranksters posing as former Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko.

Vovan and Lexus, who typically dupe public figures into talking to them by imitating various officials, released a video on Thursday featuring the top Polish diplomat. At one point, the fake Poroshenko asked whether Poland would be willing to “join the team” and fight Russian troops on territory claimed by Ukraine.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk would be “very reluctant to do so,” Sikorski replied. Even the proposal to shoot down Russian cruise missiles over western Ukraine with Polish interceptors is “very, very controversial,” since this would amount to joining the conflict, the official explained.

“If the front started to…

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