Q&A: Poland’s President Duda on Ukraine Aid, Russian Nuclear Threat

Marc Thiessen: At the NATO summit when President [Volodymyr] Zelensky criticized the [leaders’ joint statement about Ukraine’s prospective membership], there was criticism of him that he was ungrateful for all the help [given to] Ukraine. That suggests that our help to Ukraine is charity. Is our help to Ukraine charity, or is Ukraine really doing us a favor by giving its children, its lives to defend us against the Russian threat?

Andrzej Duda: I would say it this way: I don’t see it in these categories — neither that we are doing an act of charity for Ukraine, nor that Ukraine is doing charity for us. Let’s start with the fact that Russia’s aggression in Ukraine was not provoked by anyone. No one attacked Russia, just the opposite. …

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