Polish President Andrzej Duda said that " In an interview with RAI, Duda noted that the position of his country was initially to support Ukraine, TVP reports..

“It is often said that the Poles react very emotionally to the war and Russia’s attack on Ukraine.. We know what the Russian attack means, what the Russian occupation means,” Duda said..

“We know that the Russians need to be stopped, that this is a revived Russian imperialism. We support Ukrainians because we know they are opposed to Russian imperialism. If the Ukrainians give in, we might be next. We understand that,” he added..

“We know that for the security of Europe, for the security of the world, Russian imperialism must be stopped.. For me, this means, first of all, the displacement of Russia from the internationally recognized borders of Ukraine,” the President of Poland emphasized..

In his opinion, there is only one fair solution; Ukraine must return to its internationally recognized borders, this is the basis for ending the war.

\; firstly, Russian troops must withdraw from the Ukrainian territories occupied since 2014. Ukraine must return to its internationally recognized borders, and secondly, war criminals must be punished,” Duda explained..

He added that he had no doubt that Poland should help Ukrainians and Ukraine..

Duda recalled that in 2008, then-President of Poland Lech Kaczynski said in Georgia that Russian imperialism was resurgent and must be stopped because Russia could attack Ukraine, the Baltic states, and then possibly Poland..

“I understand that in Berlin, Paris and Brussels they cannot imagine that a Russian military man can come there, rape his wife, daughter and shoot a person in the back of the head, but we Poles have survived this reality.. Not the West, not NATO, not Poland resumes the arms race. Russia is the aggressor,” Duda said.

Speaking about Russia's attack on Ukraine in February this year, he noted that Russia "

“A naive one who believes in Russian propaganda about “Nazis in Ukraine”; this is complete nonsense. It's just that Russia wants to rule, to increase its territory, it wants to use the actual slave labor of other peoples, to be a parasite in the body of other countries and peoples. We do not agree to this,” Duda said, expressing his conviction that “Russia can be defeated”.

He also announced the need to send weapons and equipment to Ukraine..

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Earlier it was reported that Poland is preparing for a new wave of refugees from Ukraine. This was announced by the Podkarpackie voivode Eva Leniart. According to her estimates, up to 800,000 Ukrainians can enter the country in winter.. Such expectations are based on the fact that recent Russian attacks have caused damage, in particular to thermal power plants and other critical infrastructure, and this will lead to problems with heating..