A large majority of Ukrainians continue to view Volodymyr Zelensky as their legitimate president, despite his extended tenure without elections since Russia invaded the country in 2022. According to a survey published on Monday by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology, 70% of the 2,011 respondents believe that Zelensky should remain in office until the […]
The two-day Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland should be quickly followed up with a second meeting, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday towards the close of proceedings. Preparations would take only months and not years, Zelensky said after representatives of some 100 countries and organizations came together at the Bürgenstock mountain hotel resort near […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday predicted “history being made” at the Swiss-hosted conference which aims to plan the first steps toward peace in Ukraine. Experts and critics say little substance or few big breakthroughs are expected because Russia is not attending. The presidents of Ecuador, Ivory Coast, Kenya and Somalia joined dozens of western […]
US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have signed a long-term agreement designed to bolster Ukraine’s defences against Russia’s invasion. Mr Zelensky thanked Mr Biden for the pact but said “the question has to be for how long the unity will last”, given upcoming US elections and the prospect of Republican Donald Trump […]
President Joe Biden and President Volodymyr Zelensky will sign a bilateral security agreement between the US and Ukraine on Thursday when they meet on the sidelines of the G7 summit. The aim is to send a signal to Russia of American resolve over support for Kyiv, the White House said as Mr Biden headed to […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius have been to see Ukrainian troops being trained to use the Patriot air defence system. The two visited a military training area in northern Germany on Tuesday afternoon. The exact location was not disclosed for security reasons. Zelensky arrived from Berlin on Tuesday, where he […]
Most German lawmakers from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the upstart populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) boycotted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech on Tuesday to Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag. Only four of the AfD’s 77 lawmakers turned up in the Bundestag chamber in Berlin ahead of Zelensky’s speech after party leaders told them […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz both made urgent appeals to supply Ukraine with more air defence systems at the start of an international Ukraine reconstruction conference in Berlin on Tuesday. Scholz called on allies to support a German initiative to bolster Ukraine’s air defences “with everything possible.” “Because the best reconstruction […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky again made an urgent plea for more air defence systems and aid to rebuild his country’s ravaged energy infrastructure in a speech to a Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin on Tuesday. Zelensky said that his country needs at least seven more Patriot air defence missile systems soon in order to protect […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appealed for short-term help in repairing his country’s electricity network and long-term investment in its energy system as a conference to gather support for Ukraine’s recovery from the destruction wreaked by Russia’s war opened on Tuesday. Starting a week of intense diplomacy that will also see him travel to the Group […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was welcomed in Berlin by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Tuesday morning, ahead of an international conference on recovery and reconstruction of Ukraine. Steinmeier received Zelensky at his official residence, the Bellevue Palace in the capital. He planned to accompany Zelensky to the official opening of the conference and attend Zelensky’s […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed Russian statements regarding the capture of a village in Ukraine’s north-eastern Sumy region. “As of this morning, the Russian flag in the village [of Ryzhivka] has been destroyed, and there are no occupiers present,” Zelensky wrote on Telegram on Monday. The alleged conquest of the village was a Russian […]