Ukraine's allies must take decisive measures to force Vladimir Putin to ask for peace talks, Polish President Andrzej Duda has said.

"I don't want to beg Vladimir Putin to sit down at the table. I want Vladimir Putin to beg us, to beg Ukraine, to beg Ukraine's allies to sit down at the table and talk about how to end this war and how to solve all the problems that we have," Duda said at the Ukrainian Breakfast in Davos, organized by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, on Thursday.

At the same time, he noted that Ukraine is "not a local country, it is a global country, therefore it requires a global solution."

"Any final and peaceful solution ending this war is in the interests of Ukraine, Poland and our part of Europe and our part of the European Union - I am now thinking about the countries of Central Europe, especially those countries that for years were behind the iron curtain in the Soviet zone of influence. And as you know very well, some of Vladimir Putin's advisers sometimes mention that this is a real zone of Russian influence now, and this is Russia's right to have its influence in this part of Europe, as well as in this part of the European Union," the Polish head of state noted.

In this regard, he noted the importance of actions necessary to achieve a peaceful solution in order to "put an end to this war, which guarantees Ukraine's sovereignty, independence, which guarantees the force of international law," and to "stop the imperial ambitions of the Russian elites, which are now absolutely feasible."

"International law is not respected by Russia, by the Russians themselves, because they violate international law every day … Therefore, if we talk and if we ask the question of how to encourage Vladimir Putin to sit down at the peace negotiating table, my answer is: we must take such decisive measures to force Vladimir Putin to ask for peace talks," Duda concluded.

As reported, two days earlier, on Tuesday, at the opening of the "Your Country First – Win with Us" project organized by the Pinchuk Foundation on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Duda said that Poland's national interest was in defeating Russia and its imperial ambitions and restoring Ukraine's internationally recognized borders. He noted that everyone wants the Russian aggression against Ukraine to end as soon as possible, but one should not think that it does not matter how this war ends.