The President of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, met this Thursday in Kiev with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymir Zelensky, who was very grateful to the visit.
“Meeting today in Kiev with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Danish Prime Minister Mette Fredericksen. Thank you for being close to Ukrainians at such a difficult time! ”, said the Ukrainian president in a message posted on his Facebook page.
Zelensky accompanied the message with a video showing him at the time of receiving Sanchez and Fredericksen in Kiev, accompanied by other members of the Ukrainian government, and the meeting that followed.
Sánchez reaffirmed Spain's solidarity and commitment to Ukraine upon his arrival in Kiev by train from Poland with the Danish Prime Minister.
During his visit, the president of the Spanish government toured some of the streets of the Ukrainian city of Borodianka and was moved by the “horror of war” that he witnessed in person.
In addition, Sanchez announced in Kiev the shipment to Ukraine of the Spanish Navy ship “Isabel”, which is on its way to Poland with 200 tons of military equipment.
The president said that the new military aid will be “the largest ever made” by Spain, since it doubles what has been sent to Kiev so far.
Other leaders who have passed through Kiev
Sanchez thus becomes the last European leader to visit Zelensky in Kiev since the beginning of the conflict on February 24. The last to do so was the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, this Wednesday.
The first political leaders to travel personally to Kiev were the leaders of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki; from Slovenia, Janez Jansa; and from the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala. On the part of the EU institutions, before Michel, traveled first the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, and then that of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, and the High Representative for Foreign Policy of the Twenty-Seven, Josep Borrell, who went together.
As early as April, Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger and Austrian Foreign Minister Karl Nehammer also traveled to the Ukrainian capital, as well as the presidents of Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — Andrzej Duda, Alar Karis, Egils Levits and Gypsies Nauseda — who were together, in addition to the British 'premier', Boris Johnson.
US President Joe Biden said he was “ready” to visit Ukraine in the midst of the Russian invasion, as some counterparts have already done, such as the presidents of Poland or the Baltics.
Questioned on this point before the press, the US president has said “yes”. Biden has already visited Poland in the context of the invasion, where he traveled to see the humanitarian crisis “firsthand”. Already on that trip, he regretted not being able to visit Ukraine.
(With information from EFE and Europa Press)
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