Lech Wałęsa expresses ‘horror and distaste’ at Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy
Ex-Polish leader, who won Nobel prize for pro-democracy efforts, compares meeting to a communist interrogation
The 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 Trump and his vice-president’s demands that Zelenskyy show gratitude were “insulting” in the face of the Ukrainian country’s fight for freedom.
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