Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski will pay an official visit to the UK on Wednesday, Downing Street has confirmed, in what is his first trip to London since the start of the Russian invasion unleashed on February 24, 2022 on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Downing Street has indicated that Zelenski will meet with the British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, and will give a speech to Parliament, with no further details about the agenda at the moment, as picked up by the British television network BBC.
The Ukrainian leader addressed British parliamentarians in March 2022 via a video conference speech from the Ukrainian capital Kiev, marking the first time a foreign president addressed MPs in the House of Commons.
Zelensky has so far made only one foreign visit since the outbreak of the war. The Ukrainian president traveled on December 21 to the United States, where he met with U.S. President Joe Biden and gave a speech to Congress. On his return, he stopped in Poland for a meeting with his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, before arriving in Kiev.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
