Mateusz Morawiecki’s words came as he spoke to reporters before departing for a two-day summit of European Union leaders in Brussels, Belgium, Poland's PAP news agency reported.
Morawiecki noted that Ukraine’s government and President Volodymyr Zelensky had urged the international community to put Russia on the list of terrorist states.
“Russia is indeed terrorising Ukraine,” the Polish prime minister said, adding that Russian troops were “terrorising the civilian population, killing innocent women, children and elderly people.”
For this reason, “we should indeed” declare Russia a terrorist state, Morawiecki said, as quoted by the PAP news agency.
He confirmed that Poland had blocked the bank accounts of the Russian embassy in Warsaw.
The Russian ambassador was quoted as saying earlier in the day that Poland had blocked his embassy's bank accounts amid accusations of financing "terrorist activity," news agencies reported.
'New sanctions must be slapped on Russia'
Meanwhile, Morawiecki told reporters that he would brief EU leaders in Brussels on Poland’s recent proposal to send a humanitarian and peacekeeping mission to Ukraine.
He added that Poland would press for “further sanctions” against Russia.
He told reporters that the existing penalties on Moscow were “unprecedented, far-reaching, but definitely insufficient.”
Morawiecki also said that Russia was now “a totalitarian state” and unless the West kept up its “economic combat,” Vladimir Putin would go further with his aggressive actions.
“A year or two from now… he will go for Helsinki, Vilnius, Warsaw, Bucharest, maybe Berlin, too,” he warned.
Thursday was day 29 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Source: IAR, PAP
