The visit comes after President Zelensky's return home with 5 top commanders who were held in Turkey. Read more at straitstimes.com.
KYIV - Poland’s president emphasised the need for unity with Ukraine on Sunday as he visited the country ahead of“We are stronger together,” President Andrzej Duda said on social media, as he visited the western city of Lutsk with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.
Mr Zelensky was accompanied by five top commanders from the Azov regiment who were supposed to have remained in Turkey until the end of the conflict under a prisoner exchange deal with Moscow. “That is why we have come back to Ukraine. It is our main aim,” said Mr Prokopenko, who along with the others had been living in Turkey since September.
Mr Zelensky has said he does not expect Ukraine to actually join Nato until after the war but he hopes the summit will give a “clear signal” on the intention to bring Ukraine into the alliance. The Ukrainian soldiers were taken prisoner but later exchanged for Russian captives and the island was recaptured by Ukrainian forces in June last year.Mr Zelensky on Friday secured Turkey’s backing for Ukraine’s Nato aspirations after winning a US pledge for cluster munitions that could inflict significant damage to Russian forces.Mr Biden admitted that it had been “a difficult decision”, while humanitarian groups strongly condemned it.
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