he current events show that there is a real risk of a global conflict, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday after Russia launched a medium-range hypersonic ballistic missile at a Ukrainian city, Reuters reported, according to UNN .
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“The war in the east is entering a decisive phase, we feel that the unknown is approaching,” Tusk said at a teachers' conference.
“The conflict is taking on dramatic proportions. The last few dozen hours have shown that the threat is serious and real when it comes to global conflict,” Tusk said.
Poland, which borders Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, has been a leading voice calling on NATO members to spend more on defense, and is itself allocating 4.7% of its gross domestic product to strengthen its armed forces in 2025.
Russia said Thursday that the new US missile defense base in northern Poland would increase the overall level of nuclear danger, but Warsaw said the “threats” from Moscow only strengthened the case for NATO defense.
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Russian dictator Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the strike was a response to the United States and the United Kingdom allowing Ukraine to strike Russian territory with advanced Western weapons, which he said gave the conflict “elements of a global character.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the Russian missile strike another escalation after the deployment of North Korean troops on Russian territory.