Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Poland on Wednesday morning for his first official visit to the country, the Polish presidency said.
“The president crossed the Polish border. He is in Polish territory,” Marcin Przydacz, an adviser to the Polish presidency, told TVN24 television, without adding details.
The Ukrainian leader will meet with his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, and with the Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, to discuss security, international and economic relations, as well as historical and sensitive issues between the two countries, according to the same source.
The Ukrainian president will meet with Ukrainians residing in Poland, the member of the European Union (EU) that has received the most refugees from the country invaded since the Russian aggression.
“It will be a very special visit,” said the Polish presidency passer.
Zelensky has made few trips abroad since the start of the war with Russia, unleashed on February 24, 2022 by order of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Poland has been an important ally of kyiv since the beginning of the invasion.
The Ukrainian president made his first trip abroad in December 2022, when he traveled to the United States, after which he made a stopover in Warsaw.
He then traveled to London, Paris and Brussels in February, also paying a brief visit to Poland before returning to Ukraine.
Source: TSF
