Many Heads of State and Government are going to Ukraine in the coming days to support Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Westerners are rushing to support Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelensky, thehe Ukrainian President, on Tuesday February 1, welcomed the diplomatic and military support for his country in the face of fears of a Russian attack. It’s regarding “most important” according to him since 2014, the year of the last Russian offensive once morest Ukraine. Several leaders must indeed go to Kiev during the week. “Such an intensity of visits is an important factor in stabilizing the situation”, he explained to Parliament.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki are expected in Kiev on Tuesday. They are to be followed later in the week by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Next week, five foreign ministers from European countries are expected there, including Frenchman Jean-Yves Le Drian and German Annalena Baerbock.
After a pro-Western revolution in Kiev, Russia annexed the Ukrainian Crimean peninsula in 2014. In recent weeks, Moscow has been accused by Westerners of having massed tens of thousands of soldiers on its neighbor’s border in anticipation of a possible invasion. The Kremlin denies any bellicose intentions, but conditions the de-escalation on a list of requirements, necessary according to him to guarantee its security, in particular the assurance that Ukraine will never be a member of NATO and that the Atlantic Alliance withdraws its men on its 1997 positions.
