The prime ministers of Poland, Czech Republic and Slovenia traveled to the embattled Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday in a show of support for Ukraine even as bombardment by the Russian military edged closer to the center of the city.
The three leaders went ahead with the hours-long train trip despite worries within the European Union about the security risks of traveling within a war zone.
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on social media in the evening that he, deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski and the Czech and Slovenian leaders were in Kyiv.
“It is here, in war-torn Kyiv, that history is being made. It is here, that freedom fights against the world of tyranny. It is here that the future of us all hangs in the balance,” Morawiecki said on Twitter.
It was a strong symbol of support for Ukraine while the long journey over land from Poland to Kyiv sent the message that most of Ukraine still remains in Ukrainian hands.
Zelenskyy posted a video on Facebook of him sitting around a table with the leaders and some other officials briefing them on the war’s developments.
He expressed gratitude for their visit, calling it a “powerful testimony of support.”
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.
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