Warsaw (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk pledged to utilise his country’s presidency of the European Council to push forward with Ukraine’s membership bid.
Tusk briefed reporters in Warsaw
“We will break the standstill we have in this issue,”
As he stood alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“We will speed up the accession process.”
Tusk expressed the two flanks are
“finding a common language and modes of action on the problem of the Volhynian crime and sensitive matters of our history.”
“We will help Ukraine, but we will also look after our national interests, and this is obvious to both sides,”
Tusk stated.
Zelenskyy stated that the ministries of culture were already functioning on the particulars.
“I believe we must move onwards together with Poland. We are neighbours, and Russia is the main threat. This threat exists today, it will exist tomorrow, and we must do everything to maintain our alliance”.
How do Poland and Ukraine cooperate to strengthen bonds against Russia?
The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is currently in Poland. He arrived on January 15, 2025. Poland is now holding the rotating presidency of the European Union, the bloc Kyiv aspires to join, and Warsaw will have the leverage to place this issue high on the schedule for the next half year.
This is following the agreement of the two sides about the exhumation of the Polish victims brutally slaughtered by the Ukrainian nationalists in the World War II massacres. One of the long-term disputes that defined for many years their relationship with the other side. The Polish and Ukrainian governments reached an agreement on a historic breakthrough exhumation of Polish victims interred in mass graves in Ukraine. Exhumation has always been a sensitive topic, and Poland asked for the proper burial of the dead.
