Poland's PM Mateusz Morawiecki has called "a great success" the international meeting of donors he co-hosted in Warsaw this week with his Swedish counterpart Magdalena Andersson.
The event at the city's National Stadium, titled the High-Level International Donors’ Conference for Ukraine, raised USD 6.5 billion in humanitarian aid for war-torn Ukraine.
However, in his interview for Euronews, the Polish PM added this still was not enough:"We gathered more than we would have expected, more than 6 billion dollars. But even this amount of money is not sufficient so to say for the enormous needs which are there in Ukraine, given the atrocious war which is going on and on (...) So this is why our activity and our effectiveness in that regard is so important" he said.
Asked about relations with Russia, PM Morawiecki said that normal relations were now out of the question:"This Russia is totalitarian, nationalistic, imperial, it wants to reestablish Russian empire and Soviet Union-type of state. We cannot retreat to business as usual, no. Women and children are dying. there is genocide in Ukraine, war crimes. No relations at all with Putin, absolutely, because he is a war criminal".
The High-Level International Donors’ Conference for Ukraine held in Warsaw on May 5 was joined by the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the president of the European Council, Charles Michel.
Other participants included heads of state and government from various countries, representatives from the global business and financial communities, as well as delegates from international aid organisations,
Source: IAR/PAP