Prime Minister Boris Johnson has travelled to Kyiv to meet Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a “show of solidarity”.
“Right now a visit of Boris Johnson in Kyiv started from one-on-one meeting with President Zelenskiy,” Andriy Sybiha,
deputy head of Ukraine’s president office, said on Facebook.
A Downing Street spokesperson said the PM was making the trip “in a show of solidarity with the Ukrainian people”.
“They will discuss the UK’s long term support to Ukraine and the PM will set out a new package of financial and military aid,” the spokesperson added.
Mr Johnson’s surprise trip comes soon after the UK pledged to send armoured vehicles to Ukraine for the first time as part of a new £100m package.
Boris Johnson is not the first foreign leader to make the trip to Kyiv, with the likes of the EU’s Ursula Von Der Leyen, Austria’s Karl Nehammer and Slovakia’s Eduard Heger all meeting with Mr Zelenskyy face-to-face in the last few days.
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It also comes a day after at least 50 people were killed in an attack on civilians at Kramatorsk rail station in eastern Ukraine – something Mr Zelenskyy said was a war…
Source : skynews
