The leaders of the UK, France, Germany, and Poland visited Kyiv for a symbolic visit to Ukraine, one day after Vladimir Putin hosted a set-piece military parade on Red Square, APA reports citing The Guardian.
The visit comes as the US warned of intelligence about a big impending air attack on Ukraine.
Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, and Friedrich Merz visited in Kyiv on the same train on Saturday morning, while Donald Tusk travelled on a separate train. The four leaders met in the Polish city of Rzeszów on Friday night before departing. On Saturday, they will meet Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a show of support for Ukraine, Downing Street said in a statement issued late on Friday.
“We, the leaders of France, Germany, Poland the United Kingdom, will stand in Kyiv in solidarity with Ukraine against Russia’s barbaric and illegal full-scale invasion,” the four leaders said in a joint statement.
Meanwhile, Tusk said that anyone attending the military parade in Moscow to mark the end of the Second World War had brought shame on themselves, after Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico became the only EU leader to attend.
“I try not to comment on the decisions and behaviour of leaders of states, especially from our community,” Tusk told a news conference.
“But there is no doubt in my mind that being at the victory parade in Moscow and applauding President Putin … brings shame to everyone who is there.”
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