Poland says to welcome Ukraine’s president on Wednesday

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky is set to pay an official visit to the neighbouring Poland on Wednesday, in a rare trip abroad to one of Kyiv’s closest allies in Russia’s full-scale war.

The spokesman of the chancellery of the Polish president, Marcin Przydacz told local news media on Monday that Mr Zelensky would meet with Poles and Ukrainians at the Royal Castle in Warsaw.

The office of the president of Ukraine is yet to confirm the visit.

Mr Zelensky has already met with his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, both in Kyiv and abroad, when the Ukrainian president was returning from his rare abroad visits over the past year.

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Warsaw has given Ukraine hundreds of thousands of dollars in weaponry and hosted nearly 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees.