Zelenskyy arrives in Warsaw

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived in Warsaw on Wednesday, 15 January, where he is scheduled to meet with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

Serhii Nykyforov, spokesperson for the Ukrainian president, said in a comment to journalists that the president had arrived in Poland on 15 January, and his meeting with Tusk would begin soon.

In addition, he said that Zelenskyy was scheduled to meet with President Andrzej Duda and the Ukrainian community and attend other events.

In mid-December, Tusk visited Lviv, where he announced progress on historical issues in Polish-Ukrainian relations.

Zelenskyy's visit to Poland comes amid recent statements by Tusk regarding a breakthrough in the exhumation of the victims of the Volyn tragedy [The Volyn (Volhynia) tragedy was a series of events that led to the ethnic cleansing of the Polish and Ukrainian populations in 1943 during World War II. It was part of a long-standing rivalry between Ukrainians and Poles in what is now Ukraine's west. Poland considers the Volyn tragedy a genocide of Poles – ed.].

On 13 January, it became known that the exhumation of the remains of Poles who died in 1945 and are buried in the former village of Puzhnyky would begin in Ternopil Oblast in April.