Volodymyr Zelensky is to meet with Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Friday, “Bild” reported, citing sources. A meeting with the President of Germany is also planned. It is already officially known that on Thursday the President of Ukraine will meet with the President of France and the Prime Minister of Italy, and the next morning with the Pope. He is also scheduled to visit the UK in the coming days.
Originally president Ukraine was to attend at Saturday's summit in Ramstein on the defense of Ukrainebut because the president canceled his visit USA Joe Bidenthis meeting has been postponed to another, yet to be determined, date.
The daily “Bild” wrote on Wednesday that Volodymyr Zelensky will arrive in Berlin on Friday and meet with Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The dpa agency added that he would also talk to President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Zelensky's series of meetings
The Élysée Palace said that Zelensky will be hosted by the president in Paris on Thursday France Emmanuel Macron. “The meeting will be an opportunity to reaffirm France's determination to continue to support, in the long term and with all allies, the Ukrainian people,” the statement said. Later on Thursday, Zelensky is scheduled to meet the prime minister in Rome Italian Giorgia Meloni.
On Friday morning, Pope Francis will receive the President of Ukraine at an audience, which he announced Vatican. This will be the third meeting between Zelensky and Francis since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The Ukrainian leader visited the Pope in the Vatican in May last year, and in June this year he met with him during the G7 summit in Puglia, Italy.
On Wednesday, Zelensky also announced that “in the coming days he will fly to Great Britain” to meet Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
– I will meet separately in each of these countries with the leaders of Great Britain, France, Italy and… German – announced the Ukrainian president at a press conference in Dubrovnik, where he takes part in the Summit of the Countries of Southeastern Europe and Ukraine.
Zelensky arrived in Dubrovnik on Wednesday at noon. During the visit, he already signed with the Prime Minister Croatia Andrej Plenkovic, an agreement on long-term cooperation between the two countries.
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