Polish President Andrzej Duda arrived in Kyiv on May 22 for a surprise visit and became the first head of state to address Ukraine’s parliament since Russia launched its latest war against Ukraine on Feb. 24.
After being welcomed with a standing ovation, Duda delivered an address in which he reaffirmed Poland’s unflinching broad support for Ukraine.
“No one can shake our unity,” he told the Ukrainian lawmakers. Your people are not refugees in Poland, but our guests, the president added.
Duda last visited Kyiv on April 13 for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as part of a delegation with the presidents of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.
While he was addressing the parliament, Russian missiles were reported heading into the Kyiv region airspace. Ukrainian defense forces apparently destroyed at least one of them, though one appears to have hit a target in the Zhytomyr region, to the west of Kyiv.
