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Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, on his way back from the United States met with his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, to thank him for Poland's support for Ukraine.

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"On the way home, I had a meeting with a friend of Ukraine – President of Poland Andrzej Duda," Zelensky wrote on the Telegram on Thursday.
"We summed up the year, which brought historic challenges due to a full-scale war," Zelensky went on to say. "Also we discussed strategic plans for the future, bilateral relations and interactions at the international level in 2023."
Duda's office wrote on Twitter on Thursday that he and Zelensky "discussed the state of Polish-Ukrainian bilateral relations in the face of the ongoing Russian aggression against Ukraine."
Jakub Kumoch, Duda's foreign policy aide, told the TVN 24 news broadcaster on Thursday that "the Ukrainian side reported what they had heard in Washington."
Although the bulk of the information was confidential, "the message was very, very optimistic," Kumoch added.
"Russia counted on using the winter to incite in the West a weariness of the war and created a media narrative according to which some Western countries wanted to see immediate concessions... However, the Ukrainians received a very clear assurance from the USA that it was not the case and that the US will continue to stand by their side," Kumoch said.
Poland and the United States are the only two countries the Ukrainian president has visited since Russia invaded his homeland on February 24.
He must be so tired, imagine the weight on his shoulders the past few months. >

I'm sure he'll want to retire after this war is through. Never having to pay a bar tab ever again. >

Perhaps then he will move on to other things, such as NATO Sec-Gen. It would be appropriate to put the most effective leader in charge of NATO and this could be done with Ukraine's admission to NATO.