Ukrainian, Polish presidents discuss NATO summit in Lutsk UPDATED

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda discussed the upcoming NATO summit, which will take place in Vilnius, during an event in Lutsk.

"During the events in Lutsk, Andrzej Duda and I had a brief but very substantive discussion about the upcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius. We agreed to work together to get the best possible result for Ukraine," Zelenskyy tweeted, RBC-Ukraine reports.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Polish President Andrzej Duda met in Lutsk on 9 July.

Zelenskyy and Duda visited the Cathedral Church of Saints Peter and Paul, Ukrainska Pravda reports, citing Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne.

The visit of the presidents to Lutsk was not announced in advance.

The night before, the local city council reported that the streets of the Old Town, where the church is located, would be closed to traffic due to events commemorating the victims of World War II and the 80th anniversary of the Volhynia (Volyn) massacre.

Also attending the event were Metropolitan Epifanii of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan Mykhailo of Lutsk and Volyn, and His Beatitude Sviatoslav, Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

Earlier, Polish President Andrzej Duda said that this July, Ukraine and Poland would hold a series of joint events to commemorate the victims of the Volhynia (Volyn)  massacre.

On 7 July, Mateusz Morawiecki, Polish Prime Minister, paid tribute to the victims of the Volhynia (Volyn) massacre in the abandoned village of Ostruvky in Volyn Oblast, northwestern Ukraine.

One of the most painful issues in the common history of Poland and Ukraine is the interpretation of the tragic events in Volyn during the Second World War when the Ukrainian Insurgent Army’s units committed massacres of Poles, now regarded in Poland as genocide.