Overview

• Lech Wałęsa, Poland's former president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, criticized Donald Trump for his treatment of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during a recent Oval Office meeting.
• Wałęsa and 38 other former Polish political prisoners signed a letter expressing 'horror and distaste' at Trump's demands that Zelenskyy show gratitude for U.S. support in Ukraine's war with Russia.
• The letter compared the atmosphere of the meeting to interrogations by communist secret services, calling Trump's approach disrespectful and offensive.
• Zelenskyy, resisting U.S. pressure for concessions to Russia, emphasized that a peace deal remains distant and called for stronger security guarantees from Washington.
• The letter urged the U.S. to honor its unconditional security commitments to Ukraine, referencing guarantees made after the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1994.