The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, will travel to Kiev this week, the Community Executive announced on Tuesday.
“President Von der Leyen and High Representative Josep Borrell will visit Kiev this week to meet (of Ukraine) President Volodymir Zelensky ahead of Saturday's 'Get Up for Ukraine' event in Warsaw,” European Commission spokesman Eric Mamer tweeted.
The Community Executive thus confirmed an information advanced by the Slovenian Prime Minister, Janes Janza.
Von der Leyen and Borrell's first visit to Ukraine since the Russian invasion more than a month ago will come after the European Union accused the Kremlin of perpetrating war crimes in Bucha, just outside Kiev.
Images of civilians apparently executed in that Ukrainian locality that had been occupied for weeks by Russian troops have led the European Union to begin preparing a new package of sanctions against Moscow.
The trip of the President of the Commission and the Vice-President and Coordinator of the EU's Foreign Policy will come days after the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, met last Friday in Kiev with Zelensky.
“Courage, strength, determination. With Zelensky in Kiev. Long live Ukraine!” , Metsola tweeted from the Ukrainian capital along with a photo of Zelensky shaking hands, both dressed in green short-sleeved t-shirts and with Ukrainian and European Union flags in the background.
Earlier, on March 15, the Prime Ministers of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki; Slovenia, Janez Jansa; and the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala, traveled together to Kiev, where they also met with Zelensky to illustrate their support for the resistance against the Russian invasion.
That same day, the European Commissioner for the Environment, Virginijus Sinkevicius, whose wife is Ukrainian, also briefly traveled to Ukraine, where until now had been the first incursion into war into Ukraine by a member of the College of European Commissioners.
Both Von der Leyen and Borrell plan to speak this Tuesday before the European Parliament, meeting in plenary session in Strasbourg (France).
(With information from EFE)
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