Warsaw, May 7 (EFE) .- The high representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Kaja Kallas, said Wednesday that “all who fight for peace” should be this May 9 in Ukraine and not in Russia to celebrate Europe.
“It is evident that all those who fight for peace should be in Ukraine, instead of in Moscow, this May 9, Europe’s day, where we celebrate Europe, which is a peace project,” Kallas said upon his arrival at the informal meeting of EU exterior headlines held from today in Varsope.
Asked about the visit he plans to carry out next Friday to Lepolis, together with an uninacted delegation of Foreign Ministers, former Prime Minister Estonia said she will deal there with the Ukrainian authorities how to provide “greater support.”
“We will address different issues in terms of accountability, for example, in terms of greater support for Ukraine. I am very pleased that we can do it together, also with our partners from other countries, in addition to Europeans,” he said, without giving more details.
For his part, the Polish Foreign Minister, Radosław Sikorski, whose country holds the presidency on duty of the EU Council, stressed to his side that “it is very important to remember that all Ukraine was occupied during world War II and only a small part of Russia.”
“Millions of Ukrainians suffered Nazi persecutions and also fought in the Red Army,” he added.
For this reason, he considered “outrageous” that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, “attributes only to Russia the victory over Nazi Germany”, something that Moscow celebrates on May 9 on the so -called victory day with military parades.
“It is even worse to use the rhetoric of those days to attack Ukraine, which, unlike Russia, is a democracy,” Sikorski bet.
Russia will celebrate next Friday the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, in some celebrations to which it has invited the main world leaders in favor of an alternative multipolar order to the Western.
About twenty leaders from countries on four continents have confirmed their presence in the Red Square, which will host a military parade with the participation of the Russian troops that fight in Ukraine and detachments from other countries.
Among Europeans, only the Slovak Prime Minister, Robert Fico, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, and the Serbobosnium separatist leader, Milorad Dodik. EFE
