2025-03-03 16:10:28

Polish ex-president expresses ‘horror and distaste’ at Trump-Zelenskyy spat

Nobel Peace prize winner Lech Wałęsa compares actions of US leaders to those of communist interrogatorsThe former Polish president and Nobel Peace prize winner Lech Wałęsa has signed a letter to Donald Trump expressing “horror and distaste” at his argument with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in the White House last week.The letter, signed by Wałęsa and more than 30 former Polish political prisoners held during the communist era, said that Trump and his vice-president’s demands that Zelenskyy show gratitude were “insulting” in the face of the Ukrainian country’s fight for freedom. Continue reading...
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