Sybiha invited EU foreign ministers to Lviv on May 9
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha invited EU foreign ministers to Lviv on May 9.
This was stated by the head of Polish diplomacy Radoslaw Sikorski, Censor.NET reports citing Ukrinform.
"Minister Sybiha, in agreement with me and Kaja Kallas, also invites ministers to a meeting in Lviv on May 9. I think it's a great idea to show that Europe is there, in Ukraine, and not near Putin in Moscow," Sikorski said.
He agreed with Kaja Kallas’s view that the presence of any representative from an EU member state—or from a country aspiring to join the bloc—at events in Moscow "would compromise that country."
According to Sikorski, as the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, Putin "will try to fool the world into believing he is fighting fascism and will invoke the victory in World War II."
"Of course, that’s yet another lie. Russia is an authoritarian state. Today, there are more political prisoners in Russia than during the Brezhnev era. And it is Russia that invades neighboring countries and seeks to strip a large neighboring state of its right to its own identity," the Polish foreign minister emphasized, adding that this is "exactly what fascists do."
He emphasized that not only Russians fought in World War II. "Several million Ukrainians died in World War II, several million more served in the Red Army, liberated Poland, and took Berlin. Therefore, the victory of the anti-Hitler coalition over the Third Reich does not belong to Putin, and... using it to denigrate Ukraine is an appropriation of history," Sikorski stated.
