Polish Foreign Minister calls for speeding up aid for Ukraine

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski visited Lviv on Thursday, 12 September. During this visit, he again called on Ukraine's Western partners to speed up the flow of military aid.

As reported by RMF24, Sikorski travelled to Ukraine immediately after meeting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Warsaw, who stopped there on his way from Kyiv.

The Polish Foreign Ministry said that Sikorski met with Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi and laid flowers at the memorial plaque to seven Lviv residents killed in the massive Russian attack on 4 September. 

Po dzisiejszym spotkaniu z Sekretarzem Stanu 🇺🇸 @SecBlinken, min. @sikorskiradek udał się z wizytą na Ukrainę 🇺🇦.

Minister Sikorski, wraz z merem Lwowa Andrijem Sadowym, złożył kwiaty pod tablicą upamiętniającą ofiary rosyjskich ataków rakietowych z 4 września.

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– Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych RP 🇵🇱 (@MSZ_RP) September 12, 2024

"This is another war crime. And this is not the only building with such a fate in Lviv. There were many more such targets than the world public opinion realises," commented Sikorski.  

He urged the leaders of Western countries to speed up the flow of military aid to Ukraine and recalled Prime Minister Donald Tusk's promise to finance the reconstruction of damaged buildings in Lviv. 

In an interview with France's Le Monde, Sikorski called for the lifting of long-range weapons restrictions from Ukraine and stressed that its resilience is not infinite.