BERLIN — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will journey to Kyiv this month alongside French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, based on tabloid Bild am Sonntag.
The journey to the Ukrainian capital is more likely to happen earlier than a summit of G7 leaders at Schloss Elmau within the Bavarian Alps scheduled to start out on June 26, based on the report.
Whereas many world leaders have already made the journey to Kyiv, together with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Scholz has thus far not travelled there. He had beforehand stated the Ukrainian authorities’s choice to not welcome German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier meant he wouldn’t go himself.
“That the president of the Federal Republic of Germany … has been disinvited, stands in the best way of the matter,” Scholz stated in Might of his personal plans to make a go to. A visit to the Ukrainian capital “should be about making concrete progress, and never only a photograph alternative,” Scholz stated at one other level final month.
On Saturday, European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen made her second go to to Kyiv for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. She stated the Fee will clarify its early evaluation on Ukraine’s software to affix the EU by the top of the week.