Kyiv (dpa) – On Thursday morning, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi arrived within the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on a particular practice. They plan to carry talks there with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy about additional assist for the nation, which is below assault from Russia, and about Ukraine’s want to hitch the EU. Scholz has all the time harassed that he would solely journey to Kyiv if there have been concrete issues to debate. Zelenskiy is demanding that additional heavy weapons ought to be equipped and that the EU ought to already comply with Ukraine’s candidacy for membership at its summit in Brussels subsequent week.
Although the Romanian President Klaus Iohannis is to hitch the group in Kyiv, he needed to reach by a unique route. Since mid-March, quite a few heads of state and authorities have travelled to Ukraine, which has been preventing off an assault by Russian forces for nearly 4 months now. This go to is undoubtedly probably the most important, nevertheless: Scholz, Macron and Draghi symbolize the EU’s three most populous and economically highly effective international locations. All three states belong to the G7 alliance of democratic financial powers. Germany at the moment holds the presidency of this group, whereas France holds the EU presidency.
The go to by the three heads of state and authorities had been deliberate for a while. Regardless of some media studies, it had not been confirmed till not too long ago for safety causes. Scholz had already flown to southern Poland on Wednesday night. From the border city of Przemysl, the particular practice with 9 carriages departed for Kyiv shortly earlier than midnight. The airspace is closed due to the conflict. The overland route is the one remaining possibility, even for presidents and heads of presidency. Many conflict refugees entered the EU through Przemysl – and have additionally been returning by this route for a while.