Ukraine conflict: Chancellor Scholz apparently wants to travel to Kyiv in June
Created: 06/11/2022, 20:28
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) is apparently planning a trip to Kyiv (archive image, 2021).
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz was criticized for not having traveled to Ukraine since the beginning of the war.
Now there should be concrete travel plans – and he is not alone on the road.
Kyiv/Berlin – Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) has had to take a lot of criticism since the start of the Ukraine war.
Too hesitant arms deliveries, for example, was the accusation from the Union.
The fact that the chancellor – in contrast to Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, for example – had not yet traveled to Ukraine was also criticized.
According to BamS
information , there should now be
concrete travel plans.
Scholz travels to Ukraine: This is known about the travel plans
Chancellor Olaf Scholz apparently wants to travel to Ukraine before the G7 summit at the end of June.
This emerges from a report by
Bild am Sonntag
.
Accordingly, the Chancellor does not want to make the trip alone, but will visit Kyiv with French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
The timing was chosen because Macron did not want to travel to Ukraine until after the French parliamentary elections, the report goes on to say.
In mid-May, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was the first member of the federal government to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after the start of the war in Ukraine.
Finance Minister Christian Lindner also recently announced a trip to Kyiv.
Union leader Friedrich Merz and Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) had already visited Ukraine.