Andrzej Duda becomes the first foreign leader to address Ukraine’s parliament since the start of Russia’s war.
Poland’s president has travelled to Kyiv to become the first foreign leader to address the Ukrainian parliament since the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Ukrainian legislators stood on Sunday to applaud Polish President Andrzej Duda, who thanked them for the honour of speaking in a place where, he said, “the heart of a free, independent and democratic Ukraine beats”, according to remarks carried by the Polish state-run news agency PAP.
“The free world has the face of Ukraine”, Duda told the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s legislature.
“Despite the great destruction, despite the terrible crimes, the great suffering that the Ukrainian nation experiences every day, the Russian invaders did not break you, they did not manage to do it and I believe deeply that they will never succeed”, he said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the speech by the Polish president a “historic moment”...
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