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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who took part in the Berlin summit on peace in Ukraine, said that if Russia attacks Ukraine again, the United States will respond to the aggressor with military force, UATV English reports.
He was quoted by Onet as saying.
Tusk stated that for the first time he heard from U.S. negotiators that the United States “will commit to providing Ukraine with security guarantees in such a way that the Russians will have no doubts that (in the event of a ceasefire violation — ed.) the U.S. response will be military.”
According to him, U.S. President’s special envoy Steve Witkoff “was unequivocal on this point.”
“It is a fact that for the first time it has become so clear that the Americans, Europeans, and Ukraine are on the same side,” the Polish prime minister said.
The head of the Polish government also stressed that the only real chance to persuade Russia to engage in serious negotiations on ending the war, or “at least on a ceasefire,” is the unity of the entire West.
“We need to remain allies together with the Americans and Ukrainians so that the Russians and Putin see that it is impossible to drive a wedge between these three sides,” he said.
Tusk also noted that the issue of possible territorial concessions remains open and extremely complex, requiring serious consideration by Ukraine.
He emphasized that Poland will not exert pressure on this matter and that any decision can be based only on the assessments and calculations of the Ukrainians themselves.
“Our task is to support them in these negotiations so that there can be no talk of any Russian triumph in this confrontation. But this remains a very difficult task,” Tusk added.
According to U.S. media sources, Washington believes that “90% of the disagreements” between Ukraine and Russia were resolved following the Berlin talks.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stressed that Ukraine will not agree to either legal or “de facto” recognition of occupied Donetsk region as Russian and acknowledged that no compromise has yet been reached on this issue.
He also said that he sees readiness on the part of the United States to provide Ukraine with legally binding security guarantees operating on the principle of NATO’s Article 5, while parallel measures by European partners are also being discussed.
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