The Polish, Czech and Slovenian prime ministers arrived back in Poland on Wednesday morning, March 16, after travelling to Kyiv to show their solidarity with Ukraine.
Their visit to the Ukrainian capital was the first by foreign leaders since the Russian invasion on February 24.
“Polish, Slovenian and Czech delegations safely returned from Kyiv to Poland,” Polish government spokesman Piotr Mueller said on Twitter.
Polish public television showed images of a convoy of vehicles leaving the station in the city Przemysl, close to the Ukrainian border, where the leaders arrived by train.
On returning to Poland, the trio of prime ministers from EU countries spoke by telephone with European Council President Charles Michel, the spokesman said in a separate post.
“We need to take restrictive measures in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine,” Mueller said.
The Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, and his Czech and Slovenian counterparts, Petr Fiala and Janez Jansa, met with the Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal in Kyiv on Tuesday night.
They were joined by Polish Vice Premier Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who on Tuesday called for a NATO peace mission “protected by armed forces” to help Ukraine.
“This cannot be an unarmed mission. It must seek to provide humanitarian and peaceful aid to Ukraine,” Kaczynski was quoted as saying by the Polish news agency PAP.
