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AUTHOR:M.J. GDNUS
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk today accused Russia of planning a major terrorist campaign targeting planes and flights in Europe and the world.
Tusk said at a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Russia is planning activities that go beyond Europe's borders.
"I can confirm that Russia is planning terrorist activities, not only against Poland but also against air carriers around the world," Tusk said, without giving details about the nature of these threats.
The American New York Times recently reported that US intelligence services had warned the White House about a Russian plan to smuggle explosive devices into cargo planes flying to the United States.
According to these reports, the White House sent a strong warning to the Kremlin, demanding that the operation be stopped.
Russia, according to sources, was preparing sabotage operations against the United States by planting explosive devices in cargo shipments and sending them by plane.
This is not the first time Russia has been accused of sabotaging transport infrastructure.
Several European countries have previously accused Moscow of jamming GPS signals and attempting to attack key transport systems as part of a hybrid war.
Czech Transport Minister Martin Kupka said in April 2024 that Russia had carried out thousands of attempted cyberattacks on European rail networks since the start of its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The recent incident in Kazakhstan, where an Azerbaijani passenger plane crashed, killing 38 people, has also been linked to Russian activity.
The case has revived memories of the tragedy of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was shot down in 2014 over eastern Ukraine in an area controlled by pro-Russian separatists, killing 298 people.
The Kremlin has called all the accusations unfounded, and spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that these were politically motivated statements.
Although Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized without taking responsibility for the downing of the Azerbaijani plane, Russia has never taken responsibility for the MH17 disaster.
On Ukraine in the European Union and NATO
Zelensky and Tusk unanimously assessed that there is no better guarantee of Ukraine's security than NATO membership and expressed hope that the United States will continue to be a guarantor of Ukraine's stability, whoever its president is.
"The sooner Ukraine becomes a member of the European Union and NATO, the sooner Europe will gain the importance it so badly needs. Russia does not enter where there is understanding, cooperation and respect," Zelensky said in Warsaw.
Prime Minister Tusk, whose country holds the presidency of the European Union in the first half of this year, promised to try to eliminate the bureaucratic deadlock in negotiations with Ukraine during his presidency.
"I am convinced, and this is one of my tasks, that this represents assistance and defense of the entire EU from the brutal aggression of Russia. An independent, sovereign Ukraine, which decides its own destiny, is not only an obvious historical justice, but it is a condition for the security of Poland and the whole of Europe, which is beyond dispute," said Tusk.
Both Tusk and Zelensky expressed hope that the new US administration of President Donald Trump will not leave Ukraine in the lurch either.
"The whole world is waiting for a new American president. The United States is a guarantor of stability, it is the most powerful in the fight against Russian aggression. We count on active cooperation in the spirit of peace thanks to strength, we count on sanctions against Russia for its invasion to remain," said Zelensky, adding that one of the guarantees if any peace negotiations begin could be a military contingent of Ukraine's strategic partners on its territory.
