Ukraine: Macron, Solz and Draghi return to Poland after visit to Kyiv

The three European leaders Emanuel Macron, Olaf Solz and Mario Draghi arrived in Peremisl, Poland by special train this morning after their visit yesterday, Thursday, in Kyiv, a journalist of the French Agency found.

An hour before the train arrived at the Polish-Ukrainian border, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi visited the French president’s wagon for a bilateral meeting.

Last night, shortly after the departure of the train from Kyiv, Emanuel Macron and the German Chancellor also met to exchange views on the results of the visit.

The three leaders, as well as Romanian President Klaus Johannes, who met with them in Kyiv, said they were ready to grant Ukraine “immediate” candidate status for membership in the European Union.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed the “historic result” and said he hoped the 23 other EU member states would agree on that position at the European summit on June 23rd and 24th.

French President Macron told BFM television today that while France would do all it could to help Ukraine win the war with Russia, he would continue to talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin “every time.” which will be useful “.

Macron added that he was open to talking to Putin as part of efforts to reach an agreement on grain exports from Odessa, but added that he saw little chance of a deal.

Each of the three delegations had four wagons at its disposal on this train, which had been chartered by the Ukrainians.

In addition to diplomats and journalists, about 80 members of the French, German, Italian and Ukrainian security forces boarded the train to ensure the safety of the trip.

“Everything went very well,” one of them summed up at the end of this unusual trip of the three heads of state and government to a war-torn country.

Travel by train from Peremisl to Kyiv is the preferred route for diplomats visiting the Ukrainian capital, as airspace is closed due to the war.

SOURCE: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ

Source: Capital

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