Andrzej Duda delivered the message at the union’s nationwide congress in the southern mountain resort of Zakopane, state news agency PAP reported.
Duty to 'fight with all our might to help Ukraine'
“Thank you for welcoming refugees, for letting them stay at your vacation centres,” Duda told the unionists.
“It’s your huge contribution to building a brotherhood between our societies, our nations,” he added.
“Today it is our great duty to stand with Ukraine, and fight with all our might to help Ukraine defend itself, so that it is a free, sovereign, independent state,” the president went on to say.
He added that this was “in the interests of Poland and our whole nation.”
Duda also said that Poland and Ukraine must forge “the strongest possible relationship" based on friendship and brotherhood.
“Thank you for making such a big contribution for this relationship to grow by the day,” the president told the gathering.
‘Dear friends from Ukraine - we stand with you’: Polish PM
Meanwhile, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told the gathering that “the idea of solidarity is reflected in what we do for the Ukrainian people.”
He thanked Poles for helping “our neighbours and friends from Ukraine, who are fighting for our freedom.”
Addressing Ukrainians, he said: “Dear friends from Ukraine - we stand with you."
'Polish-Ukrainian solidarity’: ambassador
Ukraine’s ambassador to Poland, Andrii Deshchytsia, was among those taking part in Thursday's event.
He said in a speech that “Polish-Ukrainian solidarity may spell the end for the Putin regime.”
Thursday was day 92 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Poland on Thursday reported it had welcomed more than 3.61 million refugees fleeing Russia's war on Ukraine.
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Source: PAP, tvpparlament.pl