MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Janusz Korwin-Mikke regretted that newly sworn-in Polish President Andrzej Duda “still regards Russia as the greatest danger to Poland.”
Duda officially assumed office as president of Poland on Thursday, calling for “more guarantees from NATO” to protect Central and Eastern Europe from “the current difficult geopolitical situation,” particularly events unfolding in Ukraine, during his first address to parliament.
“Russia is our ally, because the neighbor of our neighbor is our natural ally,” Korwin-Mikke said. “The Right Sector is getting stronger and stronger now. I am afraid of Ukraine being ruled by the Right Sector. So I rely on the good relations with Russia to keep Ukraine in check.”
In July, activist and former lawmaker Miroslaw Orzechowski told Sputnik of the dangerous spillover of Ukraine's ultranationalist Right Sector group into Poland.
On July 11, a shootout between Right Sector militants and police officers in Ukraine's western Zakarpattia region left three people dead and 13 injured. Following the deadly clashes in Zakarpattia, thousands of Right Sector supporters rallied in the capital of Kiev urging for the impeachment of current president Petro Poroshenko.
The group was declared an extremist organization in Russia in November 2014 and subsequently banned.
