‘Playing along with Russia’

“Isolation was to be Putin’s harsh punishment for occupying Crimea. The West lasted three months”, writes Rzeczpospolita hours ahead of the Kaliningrad Triangle meeting, which will see German and Polish foreign ministers, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Radosław Sikorski, fly to Saint Petersburg to meet their Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. “This is the most high-profile visit by western politicians to Russia since the occupation of Crimea”, stresses the daily, which adds that –

Germany and Poland’s chief diplomats seem to be telling the world: Moscow is not going to leave Crimea, so we need to play along with Kremlin and to show good will so as to secure a minimum solution, which is a few months’ peace for [Ukrainian President] Petro Poroshenko.