“Putin is a war criminal and what he's responsible for in Ukraine is simply beyond one's imagination," Mateusz Morawiecki said in an interview with broadcaster Euronews on Thursday.
"I think we should create an international tribunal to trace the crimes and make justice again when the war is over," he added.
He told Euronews that Putin's Russia is a "totalitarian," "nationalistic" and "imperial" nation that "wants to re-establish the Russian empire and a post-Soviet Union type of state."
He warned that the European Union must not resume "business as usual" with Russia as long as Putin remains in power.
"We cannot see a situation where there's a retreat to business as usual," Morawiecki said, adding that women and children were dying in Ukraine and that Russia was committing "genocide" and "war crimes" in the country.
"Not with this regime," he said.
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Source: PAP, euronews.com