Polish Prime Minister fears Russian army may attack, plans mandatory military training

After Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin may launch a military operation in Poland, the country's Prime Minister Donald Tusk fears. 

He has announced a plan to provide mandatory military training to every adult and able-bodied man in Poland to prevent a possible attack by Russia.

Tusk said that the Russian army is more than 1.3 million. To prevent them, he wants to build a force of at least 500,000, including regular and reserve forces. 

After that, he commented, "We want to create a model by the end of this year so that every adult man in Poland is ready for wartime and our reserve forces are sufficiently capable of dealing with potential threats."

Tusk protested after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the deployment of nuclear weapons in his ally Belarus in the midst of the war with Ukraine. He accused Putin of violating the principle of ‘international nuclear disarmament’.

In fact, Poland, a member of the US-led military alliance, has supported Volodymyr Zelensky’s army since the beginning of the war. 

In addition, many Ukrainian citizens displaced by the Russian attack have found shelter in that country. 

In this situation, the Polish government is planning to increase defense spending from 4.7 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) to 5 percent, Tusk said, in order to counter a possible Russian attack.