Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda. declarationsoon there will be no borders between the two countries TASS Wednesday, April 5th.
“Neighbors meeting, allies meeting, partners meeting, friends meeting. In the future, there will be no political, economic and, more importantly, historical borders between our peoples,” he said.
According to Igor Zhovkva, deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, the main topic of Zelensky’s current visit is “defense support”.
Zelensky also said that if there is a threat of losing personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemovsk (Ukrainian name – Bakhmut) due to the siege, the commander will take “appropriate decisions”.
“We are in Bakhmut. It deals with the operational situation here [командующий Сухопутными войсками ВСУ] general [Александр] Syrsky. “If there is a moment of hotter events, if there is a danger of losing personnel due to the siege, the general will definitely make the right decisions on the spot,” he said.
In response, the Ukrainian president’s press secretary, Sergei Nikiforov, reported that Zelensky would meet Ukrainians in Poland at Palace Square in Warsaw and give them a big speech.
Duda had previously awarded Zelensky the Order of the White Eagle, Poland’s highest state award.
“Ukraine should join the EU”
On March 16, the President of Poland announced that the admission of Ukraine to the EU is a common political goal for Warsaw and Prague.
“We have no doubt that Ukraine should be part of the European Union.
After meeting with the new President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel, it is our great political goal to have him join the community,” said Duda.
According to the Polish leader, Ukraine has great potential in agriculture, natural resources and industry. Duda believes that one of the most promising vectors for the development of cooperation between Poland and the Czech Republic is joint work to restore Ukraine.
“Poland should take an active role in restoration [Украины] only because we are a transit country with a long border with Ukraine. “We have highways and railways going to Ukraine via Poland, we have the closest airports to Ukraine,” Duda said.
According to him, “it is difficult to imagine the restoration of Ukraine without the participation of Polish and Polish firms.”
East Kresy
in Poland in January 2023 a scandal broke out around the statement of Radoslav Sikorsky, the former head of the republic’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He initially stated that he was in Warsaw. Russian special operations they are “thinking about the partition of Ukraine”, as if in the spring of 2022 Kiev “could fall”.
The incumbent Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, reacted sharply to Sikorsky’s words. The cabinet chief said he expects “these shameful statements” to be refuted.
In mid-December last year, the columnist for the publication NDP Hanna Kramer allegedly claimed in Warsaw set dates The beginning of the “liberation march in Kiev” followed by the referendum on the return of the East Kresy, the former Polish territory, now Ukrainian territory. The author associated preparation for hostilities with regular military training in Poland.
East Kresy or “eastern foothills” is the Polish name for the territory of present-day Ukraine (part of Galicia, western Ukraine), Belarus (Western Belarus), and Lithuania that was once part of Poland.