A new alliance is forming between the UK, Poland, and Ukraine. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the preparation of this new format of cooperation during a speech in the Verkhovna Rada on February 1, Ukrainian media reports.
The first hints of this new alliance were voiced by UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on 21 January.
The Ukrainian website European Pravda previously reported, citing its diplomatic sources, that Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson and Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki planned to announce this new format of cooperation with Ukraine during their visit to Kyiv on February 1.
Speaking at a joint news conference with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal in Kyiv, Morawiecki said the announced new format of cooperation between Poland, Ukraine, and the UK was aimed primarily at strengthening security in the region, in which all three countries are interested.
He noted that the main value of such a union is security in the region, and the normal development of the economy, trade, and culture depends on it.
On Tuesday, Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba for the first time announced the details of this new emerging alliance, stating that Ukraine took the initiative to create such a format in October 2021.
The official announcement of the creation of this format was planned to take place on 1 February by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of all three countries. But as UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss contracted COVID, the official announcement will take place later, Kuleba said.
