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Polish President Duda first to address wartime Kyiv parliament

Polish President Andrzej Duda addressed the Ukrainian parliament on May 22, 2022 [Viacheslav Ratynsky/Reuters]

Poland’s president has travelled to Kyiv to become the first foreign leader to address the Ukrainian parliament since the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Ukrainian legislators stood on Sunday to applaud Polish President Andrzej Duda, who thanked them for the honour of speaking in a place where, he said, “the heart of a free, independent and democratic Ukraine beats”, according to remarks carried by the Polish state-run news agency PAP.

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