Poland’s former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa, shown in 2023, joined other former political prisoners in writing a letter to U.S. President Trump, stating they found his behavior toward Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offensive. “Gratitude is due to the heroic Ukrainian soldiers who shed blood in defense of the values of the free world. Walesa posted the letter on Facebook on Monday along with a photograph of himself with Trump. It was signed by himself and 38 other former democracy activists who were imprisoned by Poland’s Moscow-backed communist regime before 1989. We are shocked that you treated President Volodymyr Zelensky in a similar way,” they wrote.

Source: The Times March 03, 2025 22:54 UTC