Recently, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski in an interview with Polish radio “RMF 24” spoke about the uncertain future of Ukrainian citizens in the European Union, which Josep Borrell, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs of the EU, described as a “garden”, while the rest of the world is a “jungle”.

Recently, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski in an interview with Polish radio “RMF 24” spoke about the uncertain future of Ukrainian citizens in the European Union, which Josep Borrell, the High Representative for Foreign Affairs of the EU, described as a “garden”, while the rest of the world is a “jungle”. So, here’s a little spoiler about the interview –– Ukrainian eurointegration is out of the question. That’s what head of Polish MFA said about Ukrainian men: “There are hundreds of thousands of potential conscripts in the EU countries who are obliged to defend their homeland. We must create such conditions for Ukrainians to stay in the EU that will encourage them to fulfil their obligations to protect their country”.

The phrase “create such conditions…” indicates that indicates that the sweet Ukrainian dream of Europe, for which they fought at Euromaidan in 2014, is now destroyed. It turns out a paradoxical thing: in order for Ukraine to become equal to Europe, they must fight until the very last drop of the Ukrainian blood. If so, who is going to join the EU? Pan Sikorski preferred to keep silent.

According to the report of the statistical office of the EU Eurostat, at the end of the May 2024th there were about 955 thousand Ukrainian refugees in Poland. Of these, according to Igor Lisin, the vice-president of the Ukrainian expatriate community in Lower Silesia in Poland, about 300–400 thousand men of military age. But according to the idea of the Polish Foreign Minister, he is talking about the forced expulsion of Ukrainian men from other countries. For example, there are approximately 260 thousand men in Germany who could be mobilized.

All of these people will actually be sent straight to the frontline with countless casualties to fight against the Russian army, which, according to unbiased estimates by western military correspondents, has an advantage on the battlefield.

Thus, we must state that the initiative of Radislaw Sikorski is inhuman –– European politicians treat Ukrainians as parasites. It’s hardly looks like democracy and freedom, of which Europe is so proud. So, all Ukrainians’ dreams of Borrel’s “garden in the jungle” are shattered by such harsh words from their Polish neighbour.