Polish President Duda first to address wartime Kyiv parliament

Andrzej Duda turns into the primary international chief to handle Ukraine’s parliament for the reason that begin of Russia’s battle.

Poland's President Andrzej Duda shakes hands with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Polish President Andrzej Duda addressed the Ukrainian parliament on Could 22, 2022 [Viacheslav Ratynsky/Reuters]

Poland’s president has travelled to Kyiv to change into the primary international chief to handle the Ukrainian parliament for the reason that begin of Russia’s battle on Ukraine.

Ukrainian legislators stood on Sunday to applaud Polish President Andrzej Duda, who thanked them for the honour of talking in a spot the place, he stated, “the guts of a free, unbiased and democratic Ukraine beats”, in line with remarks carried by the Polish state-run information company PAP.

“The free world has the face of Ukraine,” Duda advised the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s legislature.

“Regardless of the good destruction, regardless of the horrible crimes, the good struggling that the Ukrainian nation experiences every single day, the Russian invaders didn't break you, they didn't handle to do it and I consider deeply that they are going to by no means succeed,” he stated.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy known as the speech by the Polish president a “historic second”.

Poland and Ukraine’s “sturdy” relations had been “constructed via blood, via Russian aggression”, Zelenskyy stated.

Poland has emerged as certainly one of Ukraine’s foremost allies, turning into a significant gateway for Western humanitarian support and weapons going into the nation, and can be a transit level for some international fighters, together with from Belarus, who've volunteered to combat towards Russian forces.

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Al Jazeera’s Zein Basravi underlined the significance of the shock go to by the Polish president, and the importance of Duda turning into the primary head of state to handle Ukraine’s parliament in Kyiv for the reason that Russian invasion was launched in February.

“Not like nations like Germany and France which have sturdy, historically sturdy enterprise and political ties to Russia, which have tried to strike a much more balanced and sensible diplomatic method by way of coping with Russia and Ukraine, all through this battle, Poland has fallen squarely on the aspect of Ukraine,” Basravi stated reporting from Kyiv.

Basravi stated that Poland “is aware of, its leaders know, that if Ukraine falls, then abruptly the entrance line turns into the Polish border”.

“And to that impact, the Polish president talking right here, within the capital, had a really clear message for world leaders, for his counterparts in Europe – that there could be no enterprise with Russia after what its forces have carried out in locations like Mariupol, Borodyanka, and north of Kyiv within the metropolis of Bucha,” he stated.

Zelenskyy additionally introduced on Sunday that Polish residents in Ukraine can be granted the identical rights that Ukrainian refugees are at the moment receiving in Poland. Poland has granted the fitting to reside and work and declare social safety funds to greater than 3 million Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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