Polish President Andrzej Duda, during his yesterday's visit to Latvia and speech there, advised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to accept Russia's surrender in Pereyaslav. WPROST writes about it. pl.

During a meeting with the Poles in Riga, Duda noted that everyone would continue to want to live with Russia in peace and development. But this is impossible, since the Russian Federation attacks, robs, kills and tries to take away freedom.

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In his statement, Andrzej Duda made a reference to historical events.

In January 1654, Hetman Bohdan Khmelnitsky convened a general military council in Pereyaslav.. There, both the hetman himself and the Cossack foreman swore " For this, they were supposed to receive a "

This oath was refused by some representatives of the Cossack officers, a number of Cossack regiments and cities, as well as the Ukrainian clergy.. True, this did not prevent the conclusion of a military-political alliance between the Hetmanate and the Moscow Tsardom in March of the same year..