The Polish president visits Kyiv and says Ukraine alone should determine its future.

In a visit to Kyiv on Sunday, Poland’s president said that Ukraine alone should determine its future and that the international community must demand Russia’s complete withdrawal from its territory, in the first address by a foreign leader to Ukraine’s Parliament since the war began.

President Andrzej Duda of Poland spoke to a packed chamber decorated with Polish flags. He said it would be a “huge blow not only for the Ukrainian nation, but also for the entire Western world,” if even a tiny part of the country was sacrificed in a peace deal.

“Worrying voices have appeared, saying that Ukraine should give in to Putin’s demands,” he said. “Only Ukraine has the right to decide about its future.”

Lawmakers repeatedly interrupted his address with standing ovations, a sign of the bond that has developed between the two countries. More than three million people have fled into Poland since the invasion. Read more

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