Polish President criticizes leaders of Germany and France
Polish President Andrzej Duda criticized German Chancellor Scholz and French President Macron for their phone call with Russian leader Putin.
“I am extremely surprised by all the talks that the Prime Minister Olaf Scholz and the President Emmanuel Macron conducted with Russian President Vladimir Putin. These phone calls are useless,” the Polish president said in an interview with the newspaper Bild of Germany today.
Polish President Andrzej Duda at a press conference in Konstancin-Jeziorna, Poland on June 2. Image: AFP.
Mr. Duda announced that he had a phone call with the President Putin as “a way of legitimizing the person responsible for the crimes committed by the Russian military in Ukraine”. The Polish president stressed that the Russian leadership is fully responsible for the deployment of troops to Ukraine, although he noted that Putin has the support of military commanders.
In a phone call on May 28, Mr. Scholz and Mr. Macron called on the Russian president to release prisoners taken at the Azovstal steel plant and to speak directly with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The French President on June 4 continued to call for “not to humiliate Russia” when assessing the war in Ukraine. “We must not humiliate Russia, so that when the day of fighting stops, we can build a way out through diplomatic means. I believe that France plays the role of a mediating power,” Macron said. speak.
Mr. Zelensky criticize harshly this comment, saying that Mr. Macron, as the leader of the Normandy Format negotiations that existed before Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine, fully understood all the details of the agreements with Russia, as well as “Russia’s non-compliance with the agreement”. “We will not humiliate anyone. We will respond accordingly,” the Ukrainian president announced.
Before Russia launched a military campaign in Ukraine, President Macron tried to maintain diplomacy until the last minute, holding talks with President Putin in the Kremlin to prevent the conflict but was unsuccessful. Mr. Macron spent almost no time campaigning for the presidential election in April to focus on dealing with Ukraine.
Scholz has faced criticism that Germany is not doing enough to help Ukraine defend itself. Mr. Scholz emphasize His government responded to the Russian military campaign with a major change of policy in Germany, introducing heavy weapons into the war zone.
Huyen Le (Follow Reuters, DPA)
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