West must rearm in the face of Russian threat, urges Poland’s foreign minister

Radosław Sikorski: ‘It’s easier to make a billion-euro transfer than to manufacture a howitzer barrel’. Photograph: Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters

Poland’s new foreign minister has called on European countries to boost long-term plans for military production after returning from his first foreign visit, to neighbouring Ukraine.

“Wars are not decided by tactical engagements but by industrial capacities, and we are behind the curve,” said Radosław Sikorski, in an interview in Warsaw, a few hours after returning from Kyiv on Saturday.