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Zelensky meets Polish president Duda on his way back from the U.S-VIDEO

Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian President and Andrzej Duda, Polish Presindet

22 December 2022 22:16 (UTC +04:00)

The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that he met with Polish President Andrzej Duda on his way back from a visit to Washington, APA reports citing Reuters.

He described the President of the Republic of Poland as "a friend of Ukraine".

“On the way home, I met with a friend of Ukraine - President of Poland Andrzej Duda. We summarized this year, which brought historic challenges due to full-scale war. We discussed strategic plans for the future, bilateral relations and cooperation at the international level in 2023,” Zelensky wrote on his Telegram channel.

The meeting was also reported on by President Duda’s top aide Mr Paweł Szrot.

“They talked for a long time, almost two hours. First of all, about President Zelenskyy's visit to the United States and the importance of the visit for the support of Ukraine, but also about bilateral relations between Poland and Ukraine,” Pawel Szrot told Reuters.

Poland and the U.S. are the only countries which the Ukrainian president has made a visit to during his first foreign trip since the beginning of the Russian aggression on February 24. According to a statement on the official website of the Ukrainian president, the leaders met in Rzeszów - a town well known as a logistics centre for the arms and humanitarian aid shipment to Ukraine, which the Ukrainian President bestowed an honour on by calling it “Rescuer City”.

Zelensky published a short video along with his commentary. It shows him being greeted at the airport by representatives of the Polish authorities: the head of the President's Office of International Policy, Jakub Kumoch, and the deputy minister of foreign affairs, Marcin Przydacz. The frames later show greeting with President Andrzej Duda and their joint conversation.

“During the meeting of President Andrzej Duda and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in Poland, the Ukrainian side reported on the visit to the USA from what it heard in Washington - the message is very, very optimistic,” - said the head of the presidential Foreign Affairs Office, Mr Jakub Kumoch.