WARSAW (Reuters) -Polish President Karol Nawrocki is representing Poland at a teleconference on Ukraine involving U.S. President Donald Trump and European leaders on Wednesday, his office said on X.
The office of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, a political opponent of Nawrocki, had earlier posted on X that Tusk was taking part in a video conference with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and European leaders.
However, right-wing private broadcaster TV Republika, which supports Nawrocki and his backers in the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, reported that the president was taking part in the call with Trump at 1300 GMT and had been briefed by the foreign ministry.
“… Prime Minister Donald Tusk is not participating in the meeting with President Trump,” Nawrocki’s spokesperson Rafal Leskiewicz said on X. “Poland is represented by President Karol Nawrocki.”
Government spokesman Adam Szlapka later clarified that Tusk was representing Poland in two separate calls taking place on Wednesday and involving European leaders but not Trump.
Nawrocki, a conservative nationalist and eurosceptic, is an ally of Trump’s MAGA movement and visited the White House during Poland’s presidential election campaign this year.
However, Nawrocki and PiS are strong supporters of Ukraine in its war with invading Russian forces, as is Tusk and his centrist government.
(Reporting by Alan Charlish, Barbara ErlingEditing by Gareth Jones)
