World News: Three EU leaders in Ukraine capital – Gulf Digital News

World News: Three EU leaders in Ukraine capital – Gulf Digital News

WARSAW: The prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia arrived in Kyiv by train yesterday to show support for Ukraine, the first foreign leaders to visit the capital since Russia invaded last month.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Czech counterpart Petr Fiala and Slovenia’s Janez Jansa were to meet Ukrainian officials. Also in attendance was Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the country’s ruling PiS party, who is seen as the main decision-maker in the country.

“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 wrote on Twitter.

The Czech Republic and Poland, former communist members of both the EU and Nato, have been among the strongest backers of Ukraine in Europe since the Russian invasion.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal hailed what he said was the “courage of true friends” and said the leaders would discuss support for Ukraine and further sanctions against Russia.

Morawiecki’s top aide Michal Dworczyk told private broadcaster Polsat News that the three prime ministers had started a meeting with Shmygal and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

Fiala said the decision