Europe is in a “pre-war era” reminiscent of 1939 and nobody will feel safe if Ukraine is defeated by Russia, Donald Tusk has warned, Ednews reports via Independent.
“For the first time since 1945, war in Europe is becoming ‘real’ again,” he said.
Mr Tusk, a former president of the European Council and recently elected prime minister of Poland, said Vladimir Putin was escalating his war on Ukraine, attacking Kyiv with hypersonic missiles in daylight for the first time earlier this week.
“We have not experienced a situation like this since 1945,” he said in a series of interviews with newspapers including La Reppublica and Welt am Sonntag, in which he directly appealed to Europe’s leaders to do more to bolster its defences.