Well pro-war forces in the EU want to drag the war on for years, Poles cannot be party to such plans, said former Prime Minister Leszek Miller on Thursday as a guest of Radio Zet.
“In reality, only one thing is priceless – life,” said Leszek Miller when asked about the status of Crimea.
At the beginning of the interview, the host Bogdan Rymanowski asked whether “Ukraine should agree to give up Crimea as the price of peace”.
“Yes,” said Leszek Miller.
The former head of government also touched on the most important issue. He said that in his opinion, accepting the loss of Crimea by Kyiv would also be in Poland’s interest now, because “we cannot be a country that would like to fight in Ukraine until the last Ukrainian.”
“This would seem to us as the worst testimony about ourselves,” assessed the guest of Radio ZET.
Justifying his opinion, Miller pointed out that “the Americans are close to making a decision to withdraw aid for Ukraine, which would mean that Ukraine’s situation would definitely worsen.” He recalled that the Americans articulate that they may lose patience. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said yesterday that this is not a U.S. war, reminding that this country has much more important priorities on the international stage.
According to press reports, Ukraine giving up Crimea supposed to be one of the points of the Russian-Ukrainian peace agreement that American diplomacy is trying to bring about.
According to Miller, General Bogusław Pacek is right when he says that the U.S. proposal – although difficult for Ukrainians to accept – is the only one that can stop the war.
“He said that Ukrainians must ask themselves what is their priority at this stage of the war – whether to fight to the last drop of blood or, at the cost of saving lives, to accept that some territories will still be occupied by Russians,” he quoted the words of the former general.
“I keep hearing that there are very important, valuable things, territories, etc., but in reality only one thing is priceless – life…. I am on the side of concluding even a fragile peace, and preferably a full-scale peace. Because I share the words of General Pack, Trump and other politicians who say that people in Ukraine must stop killing each other, at any cost,” said the politician.
Miller explained that “people have to survive because people are able to change any borders in the appropriate historical and diplomatic process. For over 100 years, Poland had no official territory, and our nation existed.”
