WARSAW, Aug 23 ― Polish President Andrzej Duda arrived in Kyiv today to discuss further support for Ukraine, including military aid, his office said, as Russia's invasion of the country approaches the six-month milestone.
Warsaw is one of Kyiv's strongest supporters and nearly six million Ukrainian refugees have crossed the border into Poland since Russia invaded their country on February 24. Poland, a Nato and European Union member, has often criticised some other EU nations for not doing more to help Ukraine.
“The visit will include a meeting with President (Volodymyr) Zelensky and talks on military support and defence of Ukraine in the economic, humanitarian and political sense,” Pawel Szrot told reporters.
“The presidents will discuss the political support Poland could offer to convince other countries to keep helping Ukraine,” Szrot said.
Duda has met Zelensky five times this year, including on three visits he has made to Ukraine since the start of the invasion, which Russia calls a “special military operation”.
The Polish leader will participate on this trip in a summit of the Crimea Platform, a forum that seeks to restore Ukraine's territorial integrity and an end to Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea. ― Reuters
