At the UN Security Council, Poland’s foreign minister said Russia could inflict further harm but could not win its war against Ukraine. Poland’s Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski told Russia at the UN on Wednesday that it could not win in Ukraine, directly addressing his Russian counterpart and telling him to pass on a message to Vladimir Putin: “Enough is enough.” Speaking at a meeting of the UN Security Council, Sikorski responded to claims made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He rejected Moscow’s description of Ukraine’s 2014 revolution as a “bloody coup,” disputed assertions that Ukraine bans the Russian language, and proposed internationally supervised presidential elections in Russia and Ukraine on the same day. “I was indeed there with the foreign ministers of Germany and France, and there was no coup,” Sikorski said. “The president of Ukraine, Mr. Yanukovych, was voted out of office by a democratically elected parliament of Ukraine, including by his own Party of Regions, because he carried out a massacre in which 100 or more Ukrainian civilians were killed.” Turning to what he called Putin’s “senseless colonial war,” Sikorski said Russia had failed to achieve its objectives. “You have been trying to conquer Donbas for over 12 years and Kyiv for over four,” he said. “You can still kill a lot of people, but you cannot win. You can stop this imperial war of choice at any time. Don’t endanger Europe and the world any further. Stop destroying Russia’s future.” “Sergey, I know you're listening. Tell your boss: enough is enough.”
