Only Trump can cease Putin from threatening Europe, says Polish president | EUROtoday

Donald Trump is the one one who can cease Vladimir Putin from remaining a “threat” to the entire of Europe, Poland’s president has stated.

Karol Nawrocki urged European leaders to help the Trump administration in its efforts to finish Russia’s conflict in Ukraine.

“Russia is still a threat for Europe,” he advised the BBC Radio 4 Today programme on Wednesday. “And Donald Trump, nowadays, is [the only] leader who can solve this problem and we have to support him in this process.”

At least 20 drones violated Polish airspace from Belarus and Ukraine final 12 months, prompting a response from Nato within the type of Operation Eastern Sentry.

Mr Nawrocki referred to as the incident an “extraordinary situation” and added that “until that time, no Nato member state had experienced a drone attack on that scale”. He believes Putin sought to check Polish and Nato defences and demanded a no-fly zone on the time.

“We in Poland, we don’t know a different Russia than aggressive Russia,” he continued. “It’s always the threat for Poland, for Europe and for central Europe. In history, we know only the Russia who is the threat. Even nowadays in the 21st century, after Russia’s aggression on Ukraine.”

Mr Nawrocki, a Eurosceptic nationalist, was backed by Mr Trump in his election run final 12 months and has remained loyal to him publicly ever since, visiting the White House in September 2025.

He appeared to dodge questions on Mr Trump’s controversial menace to take over Greenland, insisting that it is a matter that needs to be mentioned between Denmark’s prime minister and the president.

Europe had been “involved in not so important things, in ideological issues such as green deal for instance, climate policy, migration issues”, he claimed.

Mr Nawrocki landed in Britain on Tuesday for a sequence of conferences with prime minister Keir Starmer and thanked the UK for sending RAF Typhoon jets to assist fortify its borders.

“I would like to express my very deep appreciation for the British soldiers who are stationed in Poland… taking responsibility for Nato’s eastern flank,” he stated.

The authorities stated that the leaders mirrored on the “strength of the relationship” between the international locations in a press release launched on Tuesday.

“They agreed that both countries would deepen that relationship even further, from defence and security, to trade, commerce and education,” it continued.

Increasingly shut cooperation on defence tasks was good for each the bilateral relationship and European safety, the prime minister added. They agreed on the “importance of securing a just and lasting peace in Ukraine”.