António Guterres will visit Ukraine for the third time. He has already arrived in Poland and intends to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on March 8.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres will meet tomorrow, March 8, in the capital with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. He has already arrived in Poland on his way to Kyiv, according to the press secretary of the Secretary General.
“On Wednesday morning, he will meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv to discuss the continuation of the Black Sea Grain Initiative in all its aspects, as well as other topical issues,” the speaker explained.
António Guterres will return to the UN headquarters in New York on Thursday afternoon.
This is the third visit of the Secretary General to Ukraine.
António Guterres visited Ukraine for the first time on April 28, 2022. Then the UN Secretary General met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Bankova Street and discussed with the leader countering Russian military aggression. Before arriving in the capital, the official visited Borodyanka, liberated from Russian invaders, and saw the consequences of the war with his own eyes.
The second time the UN Secretary General visited Ukraine in the summer, on August 17, 2022. He came to meet with Volodymyr Zelensky and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the leaders of Ukraine and Turkey. The main reason for the trip was the grain agreement and relations between countries.
Recall that on March 3, Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, published a fake on social networks. Polyansky said that Russia allegedly captured an intact Leopard 2A5 tank. The official attached a photo of the equipment with the tricolor “installed” on it, but the flag turned out to be completed. Twitter users explained in the comments to the post that the photo was old and taken in Germany, at a NATO military exercise.
Earlier, on March 2, Focus reported on a petition called “Down with Russia from the UN” on the Change.org portal. The authors of the initiative advocate the exclusion of the aggressor country from the UN Security Council and the organization as a whole. Then, at the time of publication of the material, the petition had already collected more than 324 thousand signatures.
