Poland’s new prime minister vows to press the West to continue helping neighboring Ukraine

By VANESSA GERA and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
Associated Press

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s newly elected prime minister, Donald Tusk, has vowed that his government will demand that the West keep helping neighboring Ukraine. In his inaugural speech to parliament on Tuesday, Tusk also called on Poland’s fractious political class to unite, saying it cannot afford divisions while Russia is waging a war of aggression across the border, a conflict many fear could spread if Moscow prevails. Later Tusk’s government won a confidence vote in parliament. The vote, however, was delayed after a far-right lawmaker use a fire extinguisher to put out candles on a Hanukkah menorah in the parliament, creating disruption and scandal as the new pro-EU government was beginning its work.