Mateusz Morawiecki made the appeal at a joint conference with Switzerland’s Ignazio Cassis, Poland's PAP news agency reported.
The Polish prime minister said Russia had “brutally attacked Ukraine” and was “destroying cities, destroying normal life, but also committing war crimes.”
He added that both he and the Swiss head of state were united in condemnation of these crimes, and discussed “various sanctions mechanisms” against Moscow.
According to Morawiecki, it is necessary “to freeze and confiscate the Swiss-based assets of Russian oligarchs.”
“And I was persuading President Cassis for Swiss authorities to take decisive steps in this respect,” the Polish prime minister told reporters.
Morawiecki thanked Cassis for "expressing Bern’s readiness to participate in the next rounds of sanctions against Russia, and to provide humanitarian aid to refugees from Ukraine,” the bulk of whom have poured into Poland, the PAP news agency reported.
‘Peace must return to Ukraine’: Polish PM
Morawiecki told reporters that those fleeing Russian troops wanted eventually to return home, but “for that to happen, peace must be restored in Ukraine.”
He also stated that “Switzerland, Poland and the whole European Union are ready for the big plan to rebuild Ukraine after the end of the war, which hopefully will happen as soon as possible.”
For now, he added, “we must focus on political, diplomatic efforts to bring the war to a close and for Russian tanks to pull out of Ukraine.”
“A very firm policy of economic sanctions against Russia could help achieve this and that is what we analysed in depth with President Cassis,” Morawiecki concluded.
Monday is day 26 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Poland on Monday reported it had taken in more than 2.11 million refugees fleeing Russia's war on Ukraine.
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Source: IAR, PAP