Polish President Andrzej Duda. File photoWARSAW, Apr 13Polish President Andrzej Duda opposed dialogue with Russia.»We saw a picture that cannot be understood and accepted. Destroyed residential areas, bombed houses of ordinary people. I told President Volodymyr Zelensky and presidents that this is not war, but terrorism. If someone sends planes, soldiers to bomb residential areas, kill civilians, then this is not war, but cruelty, banditry and terrorism. This is a picture of a Russian attack on Ukraine, with which we will never we can put up with it,» Duda said in Kyiv, where he arrived with the presidents of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, broadcast by Polish Television.The Foreign Ministry condemned the seizure of Russian diplomatic property by Poland «There is no dialogue with those who violate all the rules. First they must admit the violation, first, in short, they must be defeated so that a normal conversation can be started,» he added. At the same time, Duda insists on new sanctions and isolation of Russia. «For those who violate such rules, there is no place today among the international community, which mutually recognizes each other. When we talk about sanctions and measures against the attacker, these should be exceptional sanctions in order to bring this war to an end, and to this future was an example that this cannot be done, that it is unacceptable,” he said. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
