The performance of presidential duties takes time and often affects the availability of the head of state. The Ukrainian president jokingly recalled this during a joint conference with the Polish president.
If someone attacks someone, he must take into account that he will be beaten. He must take into account that he will suffer losses, and whoever does not take this into account is reckless.
– said Andrzej Duda, noting that Russian soldiers can still choose a better scenario for this story.
If the Russians do what they have to do, they will go home and the Russian troops will withdraw from Ukraine. If it happens that the Ukrainian troops attack the retreating Russian troops – who will clearly be retreating – then I will be the first to pick up the phone and call Volodymyr Zelensky and tell him not to bomb them, when they retreat, let them. Let them go home. I can promise that to the Russian soldiers.
– he stressed, adding that as long as Russia attacks Ukraine, “it must take into account that those who live by the sword will die by the sword.”
However, it is not known whether the Russians could count on such an act of mercy, because situations vary, as the Ukrainian president jokingly noted:
What if the phone is busy? That’s because you’re the president and I’m the president. It could happen that you call me and my house is busy…
