We will. Warsaw ⋅ Polish President Andrzej Duda became the first foreign head of state since the start of the war to deliver a speech to the Ukrainian parliament. Duda called Ukraine’s self-defense a “heroic resistance to barbaric aggression” and spoke of “worrying voices” urging Kiev to give in to Russian demands for an end to the war. “Only Ukraine has the right to determine its future,” Duda said, promising more support on the way west: “I will not rest until Ukraine becomes a member of the EU.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy then praised the indestructible “unity of our peoples”. There are no more borders between the two countries. The leadership of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland had already traveled to Kiev as the highest church delegation from abroad since the beginning of the war. The head of the Polish episcopate, Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki, said upon his return over the weekend that “when David and Goliath are at war, you must side with the weakest”. Many refugees from Ukraine have been in Poland since the beginning of the war and, according to the Warsaw government, around 1.6 million of them want to “stay longer”.