The first Giorgia Meloni it’s at Kiev on the second anniversary of the war in Ukraine, and will hold the video conference from here G7in which Volodymyr will also intervene Zelensky. Meloni arrived in the capital on board the same train on which the President of the European Commission Ursula traveled von der LeyenAlexander The CrooPrime Minister of Belgium who is the rotating President of the EU Council, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The trip has only now been made official for safety reasons.
From Russia, meanwhile, the army announces that the Minister of Defense, Sergei Shoigu, visited troops in the occupied territories of Ukraine. “Today, in the balance of forces, the advantage is on our side,” he told the military.
This morning, ceremony at the Hostomel airport, in the afternoon connection from the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev
It is the cathedral of Hagia Sophia Kiev is the location from where Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will connect to the G7 via video conference (at 4pm Italian time), on the second anniversary of the war. The President of the Council, that of the European Commission, the Prime Minister of Belgium (who is the rotating President of the EU Council), and the Canadian Prime Minister, who recently arrived in the Ukrainian capital, are taking part in a ceremony this morning at the Antonov international airport in Hostomel, near Kiev, on the occasion of the delivery, by the Ukrainian president, of military honors to some surviving soldiers of the battle of Hostomel, when at the beginning of the conflict Moscow’s airborne forces attacked the airport with the aim of making it a head bridge for the conquest of the capital. Subsequently, a press conference will be held at Mariinskyi Palace, seat of the Ukrainian presidency, around 1.30 pm, Italian time.
Von der Leyen: ‘Extraordinary resistance of the Ukrainian people’
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, praised Ukraine’s “extraordinary resistance” as it arrived in Kiev today on the second anniversary of the start of the Russian invasion. “In Kiev for the anniversary of the second year of Russia’s war against Ukraine. And to celebrate the extraordinary resistance of the Ukrainian people,” von der Leyen said on social media. “More than ever, we stand firmly with Ukraine. Financially, economically, militarily, morally. Until the country is finally free.”
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