{"id":46818,"date":"2022-03-15T22:38:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T21:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=46818"},"modified":"2026-03-15T00:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:14:25","slug":"the-lesson-of-courage-of-the-polish-czech-and-slovenian-pm-with-their-travel-to-kiev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/15\/the-lesson-of-courage-of-the-polish-czech-and-slovenian-pm-with-their-travel-to-kiev\/","title":{"rendered":"The lesson of courage of the Polish, Czech and Slovenian PM with their travel to Kiev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/02\/23\/la-leccion-de-polonia-y-lituania-a-la-ue-sus-presidentes-viajan-a-kiev-a-apoyar-a-ucrania\/\">Como ya os cont\u00e9 aqu\u00ed<\/a>, el 12 de agosto de 2008, en plena invasi\u00f3n rusa de Georgia, hubo un gran acontecimiento en su capital, Tbilisi.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/10\/the-parties-that-supported-sanctions-on-poland-and-hungary-in-the-midst-of-a-wave-of-refugees\/\">The parties that supported sanctions on Poland and Hungary in the midst of a wave of refugees<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/10\/the-moving-message-that-sergei-a-ukrainian-father-has-addressed-to-the-people-of-poland\/\">The moving message that Sergei, a Ukrainian father, has addressed to the people of Poland<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>With Russian troops still on Georgian soil - their withdrawal was ordered that day - <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/europe\/08\/12\/georgia.rally\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the presidents of Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia attended an event in the Georgian capital in support of the invaded country<\/a>. That was a challenge from the governments of those countries to Vladimir Putin, who was already president of the Russian Federation at the time. <strong>Representing Poland was its then president, Lech Kaczy\u0144ski<\/strong>, who died in a plane crash in 2010 and the twin brother of Jaros\u0142aw Kaczy\u0144ski, the current deputy prime minister of Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Today that gesture of dignity in the face of Russian imperialism has been repeated in Ukraine. <strong>The Prime Ministers of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, and Slovenia, Janez Jan\u0161a, have traveled to Kiev in the midst of the Russian invasion<\/strong>, accompanied by the Polish Deputy Prime Minister, Jaros\u0142aw Kaczy\u0144ski.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51941204455_6509e4b86d_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The travel has been made by train from Poland to Kiev. On his Twitter account, already in the Ukrainian capital, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MorawieckiM\/status\/1503782996444340224\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, declared<\/a>: \"<em><strong>It is here, in war-torn Kyiv, that history is being made. It is here, that freedom fights against the world of tyranny.<\/strong> It is here that the future of us all hangs in the balance. EU supports UA, which can count on the help of its friends - we brought this message to Kyiv today.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51939601952_ca9cc56edd_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Around 22:00 CET, some videos were published showing <strong>the meeting of these European leaders with the Ukrainian president Volod\u00edmir Zelenski:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/roRnxL-wNe4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With this brave trip to a country mired in war, <strong>Mateusz Morawiecki, Petr Fiala, Janez Jan\u0161a, Jaros\u0142aw Kaczy\u0144ski and their companions have shown great courage and have given a lesson in the dignity of the European Union.<\/strong> Where were the rulers of other more powerful countries at that time, as well as the president of the European Commission?<strong> This trip is also a challenge to Vladimir Putin<\/strong> after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elmundo.es\/internacional\/2022\/03\/13\/622daa65e4d4d8ba7d8b4590.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Russian attack last Sunday on a Ukrainian base near the border with Poland<\/a>, in what the government of this country has interpreted as a new provocation by the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>+ UPDATED 11:45 p.m.: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MorawieckiM\/status\/1503860434918846464\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morawiecki has just published more images of the meeting with Zelenski<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51941073524_e7caba543b_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Ukrainian president<\/strong> at the meeting with European leaders.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51940832728_f6b530382e_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>An image of the room in which the meeting was held.<\/strong> Morawiecki was sitting directly in front of Morawiecki. To the left of the Polish Prime Minister are Janez Jan\u0161a and Petr Fiala, and to his right is Jaros\u0142aw Kaczy\u0144ski.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51940753031_4a74390d4e_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jaros\u0142aw Kaczy\u0144ski<\/strong> during the meeting with Zelenski in Kiev.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51941368945_7832f936c9_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Morawiecki during the meeting.<\/strong> As seen in the photo below, the Polish Prime Minister wore on his arms the same patch with the Flag of Poland with a black border worn by soldiers of the Polish Army.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51941375105_f7e1222e3c_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MorawieckiM\/status\/1503859543276756992\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Polish Prime Minister has written this reflection:<\/a> <em>\"<strong>Europe must understand that if it loses Ukraine, it will never be the same again. Europe without Ukraine will no longer be Europe.<\/strong> Rather, it will be a symbol of failure, humiliation and helplessness. And I want a strong and ambitious Europe.\"<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Como ya os cont\u00e9 aqu\u00ed, el 12 de agosto de 2008, en plena invasi\u00f3n rusa de Georgia, hubo un gran acontecimiento en su capital, Tbilisi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10373],"tags":[10737,16266,12462,13300,11274,16265,10370,16153,12695,15307,16074],"class_list":["post-46818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-world","tag-czech-republic","tag-janez-jansa","tag-jaroslaw-kaczynski","tag-kiev","tag-mateusz-morawiecki","tag-petr-fiala","tag-poland","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-slovenia","tag-ukraine","tag-volodimir-zelenski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}