Speaking at a meeting of European conservative and rightist leaders in Madrid on Sunday, Mateusz Morawiecki said Ukraine was fighting desperately to defend itself against Russia, which invaded its neighbour in February.
"I'm sure that with our help, Ukraine will prevail, and millions of Ukrainian mothers and children who have found their second homes in Poland, and in Spain, will be able to return," he said at the Viva22 political and cultural event in Madrid held by Spain's conservative opposition Vox party, Poland's PAP news agency reported.
'Russia is the greatest physical threat to our civilization'
Morawiecki warned the gathering that Russia "is the greatest physical threat to our civilization."
He also listed other threats, such as attempts to destroy Europe's Christian cultural heritage, according to the Polish state news agency.
Morawiecki lashed out at Europe's elites, saying they let themselves be seduced by cheap gas contracts and deluded themselves into believing that Moscow was a reliable ally.
He argued that the Kremlin "acted like a drug dealer" and "sold gas cheaply."
"Today we see the real price of this gas in inflation, high prices and bloodshed in Ukraine," he said.
“But it is not the elite who pays the price for these mistakes, it is not the Brussels elite, it is the ordinary people, ordinary families in Poland, Spain and all over Europe,” he added.
'We are all children of Christian civilisation'
During the event, Morawiecki spoke out for Christian traditions in Europe and values such as freedom, solidarity and social justice, the PAP news agency reported.
“We are all children of Christian civilisation, we must not forget it," he said. "I will not apologise for the fact that I am a Pole, that I am a Christian, that I am someone attached to such supposedly outdated values as the truth, freedom, solidarity and law and justice."
He advocated "a European Union of sovereign states," telling the gathering that "the EU wants to turn its back on tradition" and "the Brussels bureaucrats are expanding their powers … to create a transnational beast without true and traditional values, without a soul."
He concluded: “We must give power back to the real creators of today’s Europe, to its peoples … We will protect our homes and our values. We will protect our homelands.”
Morawiecki told reporters in January that Europe's conservative and rightist leaders were working to map out alternative paths for the 27-nation European Union.
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Source: IAR, PAP