Mateusz Morawiecki made the plea ahead of the start of the European Council summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday, Poland's PAP news agency reported.
US President Joe Biden arrived as a special guest as European Union leaders gathered to address Russia's ongoing military aggression against Ukraine.
The Polish prime minister said that Russia’s attack on Ukraine “is not an ordinary war anymore … it is carnage, it is a slaughter of civilians, the slaughter of the innocents: children, women, elderly people.”
He added: “Humanitarian convoys are being attacked - this is barbarism.”
‘Crushing sanctions’
“Russia is resurrecting the evil empire, so we must cut off [President Vladimir] Putin’s war machine from its oxygen,” Morawiecki also said.
He called on the EU to impose “a ban on Russian gas, oil, coal and all hydrocarbons,” as part of “the harshest possible, crushing sanctions” on Moscow.
Morawiecki also urged for trade with Russia “by sea, land, rail” to be cut off.
“It’s the only way to force Russia to cease its aggressive policy,” he added.
Morawiecki told reporters he would talk to EU leaders in Brussels about Poland’s plan to send a peacekeeping mission to Ukraine, “under the auspices of NATO and potentially other countries and international organisations,” the PAP news agency reported.
Thursday was day 29 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Poland on Thursday reported it had welcomed 2.2 million refugees fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Source: IAR, PAP