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.
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 news agency added that he would also talk to President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Meetings with Macron, Meloni and Francis
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.
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