The former head of the Ministry of National Defense, KO MP Tomasz Siemoniak attacked ambassadors Rościszewski and Cichocki on Twitter. Oleksandr Merezhko, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, responded to the Polish opposition politician.
Poland’s participation in the war?
Statement by the Polish ambassador to France, Jan Emeryk Rościszewski, about “enter [Polski] to war [z Rosją] caused a lot of commotion in the public space.
If Ukraine does not defend its independence, we have no choice but to enter the conflict
– said the diplomat last week in an interview with French television LCI.
Rościszewski’s words caused a wave of reactions. The Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine, Bartosz Cichocki, agreed.
After all, it is clear that the fall of Ukraine means war in Poland
he wrote on Twitter.
Ukrainian politician defending Ambassador Cichocki
Statements by diplomats made m.in. former Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak, who demanded the resignation of Bartosz Cichocki and Jan Emeryk Rościszewski.
The statements of PiS ambassadors Rościszewski and Cichocki suggesting that “Poland is taking part in the war” touch on Polish raison d’état and are indefensible. It is not the role of these people to speculate irresponsibly publicly. They should be expelled from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately
– He wrote.
However, he received a rather unexpected answer. The head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Ukrainian Supreme Council, Oleksandr Merezhko, responded to Siemoniak’s submission.
For us Ukrainians, Ambassador Cichocki is a true hero who has stayed with us during this perilous time. And I totally agree with what he said. It is sad that in Poland there are still politicians like you who are trying to destroy relations between Ukraine and Poland
– wrote a Ukrainian politician in English.
Perhaps Minister Siemoniak and his ilk should finally understand that the ambassadors are Polish, not “PiS” and that they really said what the Polish authorities have been saying since the beginning of the war – that if Russia is not defeated in Ukraine, it will try to continue in its imperialist tendencies.
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Source: wPolityce