The Polish Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Piotr Wawrzyk, said that the bloody war, which Russia has been waging against Ukraine for six months already, is "not Putin’s war, but the Russians’ war". He emphasized that every citizen of the aggressor country should bear responsibility for it, as cited by Polskie Radio.
"It’s not Putin's war, because it’s not Putin who fights this war, but the Russians fight this war. If their families don’t understand this, if their relatives cannot understand what’s going on in Ukraine, I think that they too should bear responsibility for this. Because if Putin wasn’t supported by his society, he probably wouldn’t have been waging this war. In spite of everything, he is sensitive to the appraisal the Russians give to his politics," the politician said.
He noted that Warsaw supports the position asserted by Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, which advocate refusing to issue tourist visas to Russians.
Context. Earlier, Olaf Scholz said that Germany didn’t support the call by a number of countries to stop giving tourist visas to Russian citizens. He stressed that "this is not the war of the Russian people." According to him, all the decisions the EU makes "should not make it more complicated to go for freedom, to leave the country."
The High Representative of the EU, Josep Borrell, also doesn’t support an EU-wide ban on tourist visas for Russians.
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