Minister Tomasz Siemoniak in Kyiv: We have been, we are, and we will continue to be with an independent Ukraine

21.02.2026

Minister-Member of the Council of Ministers Coordinator of the Intelligence and Security Services Tomasz Siemoniak paid a two-day (20-21 February this year) visit to Ukraine. In Kyiv, he met, among others, with Kyrylo Budanov, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, and the First Deputy Head of the Office, Serhii Kyslytsia, as well as with the Head of Ukraine's Ministry of the Interior, Ihor Klymenko.

Na zdjęciu widać duży stół. Po lewej stronie stołu siedzi pięć osób. Na pierwszym planie po lewej siedzi minister Radosław Kujawa, jako drugi po lewej siedzi minister Tomasz Siemoniak. Po prawej stronie stołu siedzą trzy osoby - w środku siedzi szef MSW Ukrainy Ihor Klymenko. Na stole znajdują się teczki, notesy, dwa proporczyki z flagami polską i ukraińską, butelki z wodą, szklanki. W tle stołu znajduje się telewizor oraz dwie flagi. Po lewej stronie pokoju widać szklaną gablotę.

Demonstrating our support and full solidarity with the Ukrainian nation is particularly important on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the Russian attack on our neighbour. We have been, we are, and we will be with an independent Ukraine

Minister Tomasz Siemoniak emphasised.

During the meeting with Kyrylo Budanov, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, and the First Deputy Head of the Office, Serhii Kyslytsia, they discussed bilateral cooperation in the field of security and the state of the peace talks.

Meanwhile, the main topics of Minister Tomasz Siemoniak’s conversation with Ukraine’s Minister of the Interior, Ihor Klymenko, were Ukraine’s security situation and the effects of Russian attacks on energy infrastructure.

During the talks, the Ukrainian side confirmed full support for Poland in countering acts of Russian sabotage

noted the Minister, member of the Council of Ministers, Coordinator of Special Services.

During the visit to Ukraine, Minister Tomasz Siemoniak travelled to Bykivnia near Kyiv, where the remains of 3,435 Polish citizens from the Ukrainian Katyń List lie in mass graves. They were murdered in 1940 by NKVD officers. The area is also the burial site of more than 100,000 victims of Stalinist terror from the second half of the 1930s of the previous century.

We paid tribute to Them. Honour to Their memory!

wrote the Coordinator of Special Services.

In Kyiv, at the Wall of the Fallen for Ukraine, we paid tribute to Ukrainian volunteers, soldiers and representatives of the uniformed services who died during the Russo-Ukrainian war

Minister Tomasz Siemoniak reported.

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Na pierwszym planie widać część pomnika, na którym po prawej stronie stoją trzy znicze - dwa w kolorze czerwonym i jeden w kolorze białym, natomiast po stronie lewej - jeden znicz w kolorze białym. Żołnierz składa wiązankę kwiatów w kolorze biało-czerwonym. W tle widać cztery osoby, w tym po lewej stronie ministra Tomasza Siemoniaka. Jedna z osób trzyma znicz w kolorze czerwonym. W tle widać las.

Na pierwszym planie widać dwie osoby. Po lewej ministra Tomasza Siemoniaka, natomiast po prawej Kyryło Budanowa, szefa Biura Prezydenta Ukrainy. Minister Tomasz Siemoniak wręcza upominek. Dodatkowo po prawej stronie widać niebieski ekran.