{"id":1436803,"date":"2026-09-08T12:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T09:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/diplomacy-requires-strength-poroshenko-in-poland-called-for-pressure-on-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T12:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T09:53:19","slug":"diplomacy-requires-strength-poroshenko-in-poland-called-for-pressure-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/diplomacy-requires-strength-poroshenko-in-poland-called-for-pressure-on-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDiplomacy requires strength\u201d: Poroshenko in Poland called for pressure on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The fifth President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, met with Polish MP Pawel Kowal in the Polish Sejm. The parties discussed the war, prospects for a ceasefire, Ukrainian-Polish relations, and Ukraine&#8217;s further progress towards the EU.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Poroshenko <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=1624660482353147&#038;id=100044276327179&#038;rdid=HNL6zZXaltDBiFOd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> this on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p> According to him, the conversation focused on the necessary steps to achieve a just and lasting peace. Poroshenko emphasized that for effective diplomacy, in his opinion, it is necessary to increase pressure on Russia.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Our common position is that true and effective diplomacy requires force, and therefore pressure on Russia, because Putin does not understand any other language,&#8221; Poroshenko wrote. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-08_12-50-35.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"560\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1436793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-08_12-50-35.jpg 750w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-08_12-50-35-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-08_12-50-35-650x485.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Separately, the politicians discussed Ukrainian-Polish relations and the issue of exhumations. According to Poroshenko, the parties agreed to continue working on depoliticizing this issue in the interests of both countries. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-08_12-50-50.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"551\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1436796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-08_12-50-50.jpg 750w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-08_12-50-50-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo_2026-09-08_12-50-50-650x478.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> The meeting also discussed Ukraine&#8217;s accession to the European Union. Poroshenko stressed the importance of supporting Warsaw, in particular for the faster opening of the next negotiation clusters.<\/p>\n<p> The issue of opening negotiation clusters for Ukraine remains relevant today: on September 8, representatives of EU countries are again trying to make progress on clusters 2 and 3, which were previously blocked by Hungary.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, met with Polish MP Pawel Kowal in the Polish Sejm. The parties discussed the war, prospects for a ceasefire, Ukrainian-Polish relations, and Ukraine&#8217;s further progress towards the EU. Poroshenko announced this on Facebook. According to him, the conversation focused on the necessary steps to achieve a just and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1436789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76885],"class_list":["post-1436803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1436789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}