KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine and Poland will be able to resolve their differences, including those linked to protests by Polish truck drivers at the border, said Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky, who received Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Kyiv on Monday.
The Polish leader, who took office last month, visited Ukraine for talks with the Ukrainian president with a view to strengthening bilateral relations after months of tension.
“We discussed with the (Polish) Prime Minister that all critical issues that exist can be resolved at the level of governments, and work in this direction will begin soon,” Volodimir Zelensky said at a joint press briefing with Donald Tusk.
Poland, which has hosted more than a million Ukrainian refugees since February 2022, has been an early ally of Kyiv in the face of the Russian invasion and is working to obtain more financial and military support from its Western partners. .
However, relations between Warsaw and Kyiv have deteriorated in recent months due to blockades led by Polish truck drivers at the border with Ukraine, unhappy with competition deemed unfair by their Ukrainian counterparts, and protests by farmers against imports. of Ukrainian cereals.
Last week, Polish truckers pledged to stop their demonstrations until March 1, which aimed to block access – without prior authorization – to Ukrainian truckers to the EU.
On the military front, Poland said last week it was studying the possibility of manufacturing more munitions and equipment as part of a new aid program for Ukraine.
“There is no more important issue than supporting Ukraine in its war effort – that is issue number one,” Donald Tusk said earlier Monday, in comments broadcast by Polish television.
(Reporting Dan Peleschuk, Max Hunder, Pawel Florkiewicz and Yuliia Dysa; French version Diana Mandiá, edited by Sophie Louet and Blandine Hénault)
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