H.E. Ms Anna Sochaska:

Yes, they should be of good quality. I would not like to criticise. Somebody probably had a really good heart but did not think about whether the thing was really needed. We need good quality, warm clothes, long-life food and nappies, but mostly donations. I would say, and Dr. Stefan probably agrees with me, that people on the ground know best what is needed. If they have money, they will know best what to buy and what to provide to all of those people.

When Senator Craughwell was in Poland, he wrote on Twitter that these are not poor people, these are people who had to leave their country with one case; they are people who do not need old clothes. I will underline targeted aid and donations. That is the most important.

In terms of how we read the security situation, both Poland and Romania are NATO members, thank God. Yesterday's bombarding of a military centre 30 km from the Polish border really shows us that Putin's way of doing things is going step by step and checking what the reaction is going to be. Of course he is aware of the fact that the NATO Secretary General and the American President have said we will defend the territory of NATO. Of course, we do not want a conflict. NATO is a defence organisation. It did not do anything to harm Russia. We are not comfortable with the bombardment of places close to the Polish border. It is really hard to say what the next step is going to be.