During the visit of the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, to Kyiv on 23 February 2022, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that russia would attack Ukraine in the next few hours.
nv.ua writes that Duda said this in an interview with Polska Times.
Duda said that the meeting with Zelenskyy the day before the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine was a very touching moment for him."
"I heard: "The russians think we will not fight, but they are wrong. We have experienced worriers who have been fighting for eight years and are skilled in combat. This is a completely different Ukraine and a completely different Ukrainian army than the one back in 2014," - he said."
"In the end, Zelenskyy said," Andrzej, maybe this is the last time we see each other," - Duda added.
Duda called Zelenskyy his friend and stated that he was sincerely afraid of not hearing from him again, and after 24 February 2022, he called him every day."
"I was in Kyiv a few hours before the attack; we left Ukraine just a few hours before... Saying goodbye, Volodymyr Zelensky told me that he was confident that Ukraine would be attacked within the next few hours," - said the leader of Poland.
On 23 February 2022, on the eve of the russian invasion, the presidents of Poland and Lithuania, Andrzej Duda and Gitanas Nauseda, arrived in Kyiv to express their solidarity with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. During the visit, the heads of state signed a joint declaration.