Echoing remarks by US President Joe Biden in Warsaw a day earlier, Kaczyński said: "The president of the United States said yesterday about how we have a long fight ahead of us, a fight that may last not just weeks or months, but years."
Referring to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the breakup of the former communist bloc more than three decades ago, Kaczyński added that "this new fight" against what many still view as the evil empire "must also end in a victory" for the free world.
"We do not want Ukraine to lose this war, which it has been waging so heroically," Kaczyński said.
"Ukraine must win; it must defend itself," he added.
'Fight for the long haul': Biden
In a major speech in the Polish capital on Saturday, Biden told the world that Vladimir Putin should no longer remain in power amid Russia's brutal war against Ukraine.
"For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power," Biden said at the close of his address outside Warsaw's Royal Castle during a two-day visit to Poland.
He also told the crowd gathered in Warsaw that "Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia, for free people refuse to live in a world of hopelessness and darkness."
US President Joe Biden delivers a speech outside the Royal Castle in Warsaw on Saturday. Photo: PAP/Radek Pietruszka
Biden said: "We must commit now to be in this fight for the long haul. We must remain unified today and tomorrow and the day after and for the years and decades to come."
He added: "It will not be easy. There will be costs. But it’s a price we have to pay. Because the darkness that drives autocracy is ultimately no match for the flame of liberty that lights the souls of free people everywhere."
'Need for a peacekeeping mission' in Ukraine: Kaczyński
Poland's Kaczyński, who is deputy prime minister in charge of security, travelled to Kyiv earlier this month, together with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Czech leader Petr Fiala and Slovenia’s Janez Janša, for face-to-face talks with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.
During the visit, Kaczyński proposed that NATO or "some wider international body" send a peacekeeping mission to Ukraine.
Kaczyński said at the time: "There is a need for a peacekeeping mission by NATO, maybe also by some wider international body” in Ukraine, "a mission that will be able to defend itself, and which will operate on Ukrainian territory."
He called on the world to "back up its words of respect and solidarity” toward Ukraine with “deeds” and “courage," Polish state news agency PAP reported.
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Source: PAP, TVP Info