ROME – Thursday the Prime Minister Mario Draghi will be in the Ukrainian capital with the German chancellor Olaf Scholz and the French president Emmanuel Macron. The news was anticipated by Bild am Sonntag, who had spoken of a visit by the three leaders before the G7 summit in late June. The online magazine Focus had hypothesized on Thursday 16 June as a possible date of the trip.
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