Poland’s president has criticised leaders for pursuing talks with Vladimir Putin, comparing their efforts to attempting peace discussions with Adolf Hitler in the Second World War.
Speaking to German newspaper Bild, Polish president Andrzej Duda slammed the leaders of France and Germany over their phone calls with Russian president.
“Did anyone speak like this with Adolf Hitler during World War Two?” Mr Duda said. “Did anyone say that Adolf Hitler must save face? That we should proceed in such a way that it is not humiliating for Adolf Hitler? I have not heard such voices.”
Both Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Olaf Sholz have held private talks with Mr Putin over the invasion of Ukraine.
It comes as a brutal siege continues in Ukraine’s eastern Sievierodonetsk which president Zelensky has said will decide the fate of separatist territory Donbas.
