Mateusz Morawiecki made the statement as he visited construction work on the Baltic Pipe gas pipeline from Norway, in the northwestern Polish town of Goleniów, the state PAP news agency reported.
“What happened over the past few weeks has been like a splash of cold water,” he said.
The PM emphasised that Russia sold gas not just for financial profit.
“It’s also about making Europe dependent on Russian gas,” he said.
Morawiecki added that Moscow exchanged money from the sale of natural resources for weapons, “which it uses to attack innocent people, destroy international law and whole nations.”
“Today, the entire Europe realises this,” the Polish PM said. “Better late than never.”
Morawiecki stressed that the Baltic Pipe, due to be launched on October 1, had become “critically important” for Poland in the face of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“It makes us independent from the Russian blackmailer,” he said.
The PM also announced that with the Russian attack on Ukraine driving consumer prices higher, the government would prolong the measures already in place to combat inflation, public broadcaster Polish Radio’s IAR news agency reported.
Saturday is day seventeen of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24.
Poland on Friday reported it had admitted 1,52 million people escaping the Russian attack on Ukraine.
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Source: IAR, PAP