Poland’s new foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski, who is on an official visit to Kyiv on Friday, called on the European Union and the United States to “mobilize” their economies and military production capacities to help Ukraine win a war with Russia, which has “shifted.” to the war economy,” reports France Presse.

“We cannot allow Russia to produce more (than the West) on the basis of a much smaller economy (…) If the West mobilizes, I have no doubt that it will win, but it must finally start mobilizing,” Sikorsky said. , in the context of which hesitation began to appear in the West regarding the continuation of aid to Ukraine, reports Agerpres.

Ukraine and Poland will find ways for their companies in the defense sector “to do much more than today, to increase military production, which is very necessary,” said Poland’s foreign minister, who held two press conferences in Kyiv, one of which he shared with his Ukrainian . colleague Dmytro Kuleba, and the other separately at the Polish embassy.

“It’s about what we can do together to produce enough military equipment and ammunition to send (Russian President Vladimir) Putin back to where he belongs, in Russia,” insisted the Polish minister.

He estimated that the “impasse” in which the situation at the front, where Ukrainian troops are now on the defensive after an unsuccessful counteroffensive, is a “test” for the friendship between Warsaw and Kyiv. tests in recent months after Poland no longer agreed to free access of Ukrainian grain to its market, and Polish truckers blocked border crossings with Ukraine in protest against unfair competition from Ukrainian carriers.

Considering Radoslav Sikorskyi’s visit to Kyiv as a “sign of friendship” and — as his first foreign visit after his appointment — “a sign of respect for Ukraine,” Minister Dmytro Kuleba expressed confidence that the two countries, whose “common enemies” are Russia, will resolve their differences. arising in two questions of an economic and commercial nature.

The Polish minister also met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi, whose office said after the meeting that they discussed military cooperation, including the creation of joint production facilities in this field, and agreed to give “new momentum” to relations between their countries. .

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