Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski commented on the planned meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. The talks are to take place in Hungary. This raised the question of whether Putin could fly there on a plane that would fly through Polish airspace. Sikorski reacted sharply to this question.
This was reported by the Polish publication Super Express.
Sikorski was asked about the planned meeting between US President Donald Trump and Putin in Budapest on Radio Rodzina.
When asked whether Putin could fly to Hungary on a plane that would fly through Polish airspace, which Russian planes are not allowed to enter, and whether the plane could be detained in such a case, the foreign minister replied: “We cannot guarantee that an independent court will not oblige the government to detain such a plane in order to deliver the suspect to the tribunal in The Hague.”
As is well known, Putin has been under an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court in The Hague since 2023 as a suspect in war crimes.
Since February 2025, there has been a ban on Russian aircraft flying over the entire territory of the European Union. Sikorski noted that Hungary, which is a member of the EU, can be reached from Russia, for example, through the airspace of Turkey, Montenegro, and Serbia.
“The fact that a member of the European Union, which is obliged to cooperate with the ICC, is inviting President Putin to visit is not only disgusting, but also shows that Hungary is positioning itself not as part of the West, but between the West and Russia,” the foreign minister said.