Mateusz Morawiecki: "We are showing that we are doing our job, that we are defending the eastern flank of NATO and the European Union"

LE FIGARO: What did you say to President Macron?

Mateusz MORAWIECKI.-

This Wednesday, I insisted on the elements which are currently destabilizing Eastern Europe and on the dangerous puzzle they constitute. First we have the deliberate human trafficking action by Belarusian President Lukashenko: bringing illegal immigrants from Middle Eastern countries to Belarus, then trying to push them across the Polish border. Then we have the strengthening of Russia's military presence around Ukraine.

Finally, we have the problem of Ukraine's energy deficit, in gas, oil and coal.

Another hot spot is Moldova and the recent Russian energy blackmail.

Another piece of this puzzle is Russia's propaganda war against the West, accompanied by numerous clandestine cyber attacks.

It is clear that today Putin is trying to mobilize his public opinion around external enemies and to reestablish Greater Russia.

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