Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko will be among other Central and Eastern European leaders who will attend festivities in Poland on May 7 to honor the 70th anniversary in the Second World War, the Polish television TVN-24 said on its website.
“It is known that along with [Polish] President Bronislaw Komorowski and [Polish] government representatives in Westerplatte on May 7 there will be the presidents of the Central and Eastern European countries: Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, and – in the context of the current situation in Europe and most importantly – Ukraine,” the television company said on the website.
Eleven presidents are expected to arrive in Poland. They will attend discussions among historians and lay flowers to a monument to the fallen workers of a shipyard.
The main festivities will begin at midnight from May 7 to 8 in Westerplatte (a peninsula on the Polish coast of the Baltic Sea, near the city of Gdansk) where Poland offered resistance to the Nazi Germany in September 1939.