The former German defense minister is accompanied by a delegation that also includes EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell. Von der Leyen took the train from southeastern Poland to Kiev on Friday night.
7:35 am, April 8, 2022
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is expected today for a solidarity visit to the Ukrainian capital Kiev, where she will meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyj, among others. Von der Leyen is accompanied by a delegation that also includes EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell. She is the first high-ranking Western politician to visit Ukraine since the war atrocities in the Kiev suburb of Bucha became known.
Von der Leyen took the train from southeastern Poland to Kiev on Friday night. She boarded the train in the small Polish town of Przemysl, 13 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. Airspace over Ukraine is closed because of the war.
However, they were already in mid-March. heads of government of Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic was in Ukraine to show solidarity. Last week, the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, visited Kiev.
In response to the killing of hundreds of civilians in Butscha, von der Leyen proposed a fifth package of sanctions against Russia on Tuesday, which EU states are now discussing. Among other things, it contains a ban on imports of coal from Russia, but also other restrictions on trade with Russia and an extensive ban on Russian ships entering EU ports. For some Member States, sanctions do not go far enough.
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