The prime ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia have met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the embattled Ukrainian capital. The long train journey from Poland to Kyiv reinforces the fact that most of Ukraine remains in Ukrainian hands.
Poland’s leaders, together with Prime Ministers Petr Fiala of the Czech Republic and Janez Jansa of Slovenia, said they were on an EU mission. But officials from the 27-nation bloc insisted that the trio had undertaken the trip independently.
“We are fighting also to be equal members of Europe,” Zelenskyy told EU lawmakers on March 1. “I believe that today we are showing everybody that is what we are.” Jansa, 63, served as defense minister during the small state’s brief and successful uprising against the Yugoslav army when Slovenia declared independence in 1991. Lately, he has been comparing Ukraine’s resistance to Slovenia’s uprising against a much stronger enemy.Also traveling with the three leaders was Kaczynski, Poland’s de-facto leader whose presence carries a symbolic significance.
Morawiecki said on Facebook that the visit was agreed by the EU and that the United Nations was also informed. Yet in Brussels, officials said they had been informed of the visit but characterized it as one taken independently into a war zone. Shortly before dawn and hours before the leaders were due in Kyiv, large explosions thundered across the city from what Ukrainian authorities said were Russian artillery strikes. The shelling ignited a huge fire and a frantic rescue effort in a 15-story apartment building. At least one person was killed and others remain trapped inside.
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