3 EU PMs travel to Kyiv as Russia intensifies bombardment on capital

Prime Ministers of Poland, Czech Republic and Slovenia traveled to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv yesterday in a show of support even as bombardment by the Russian military edged closer to the center of the city. Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that he, deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski and the Czech and Slovenian leaders were in Kyiv yesterday.

Poland's Prime Minister said, it is here, in war-torn



Kyiv, that history is being made and it is here, that freedom fights against the world of tyranny.

Poland's leaders, together with Prime Ministers Petr Fiala of the Czech Republic and Janez Jansa of Slovenia, said they were on an EU mission. Mr Jansa described the visit as a way to send a message that Ukraine is a European country that deserves to be accepted one day into the EU.