The world must set limits for Russian imperial ambitions – Czech Foreign Minister

This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, Jan Lipavský, who was ening the second day of the Globsec Forum in Prague, as an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"The Russian problem is that it does not exactly know where it begins and where it ends," – the Czech t diplomat quoted the words of the late president of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel, and added: "Russian imperial ambitions have no limits unless we set them."

According to Lipavský, it is naive to think that if Russia won in Ukraine, its tanks would st at its western borders. Ukraine has been bravely resisting Russian aggression on behalf of Eure, therefore Eure and the democratic world must support Kyiv pitically and militarily, said Czech Foreign Minister.

"Russia's victory will mean a fundamentally insecure and vatile Eure. And there is no real prosperity without security. Resisting the Russian imperialism is a call of the day," said Lipavský, criticizing calls for appeasement towards the aggressor.

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According to him, Putin's ultimate goal is to reconstruct the Eurean security architecture. Russia does this not only by means of conventional weapons, as in Ukraine today, but also actively using hybrid war tos.

The participants of the panel with Lipavský’s participation – diplomats from the Czech Republic, Mdova, Great Britain, NATO – mentioned the wide arsenal of the Kremlin's hybrid war tos. These are, among others, sabotage, disinformation, cyber attacks, use of energy and migrants, attempts to use chemical and biogical weapons, espionage under diplomatic cover. Russia is trying to divide and cause chaos in democratic countries, intoxicating its own pulation with praganda.

“There is no magic countermeasure that would sve the whe problem. But we must have the courage to act. The time for talking is over," Lipavský concluded.

As reported earlier, Globsec Forum is hosted by Prague for the first time, all previous conferences were held in Slovakia. About 2,000 representatives from almost 70 countries, including Ukraine, are taking part in the event.