The European tour of the Ukrainian president continues this Thursday. After their meeting on Thursday night at the Elysee Palace, the presidents of France and Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron and Volodymyr Zelensky, will travel together to the EU summit scheduled for today in Brussels.
According to an Élysée press release obtained by BFMTV, the two men will take off at 8:30 a.m. from Villacoublay airbase.
Zelensky will insist on planes
On this day, the Ukrainian leader is expected as a guest of honor at a summit of the Twenty-seven where he will have to beg his allies to hand over fighter planes “as soon as possible”, as he did on Wednesday in London and Paris. .
The head of state began a surprise mini-European tour on Wednesday, only his second trip abroad since the outbreak of the war on February 24, 2022 after his trip to the United States in December.
Before the press, Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz temporized on the issue of planes, a new stage in support for Kiev to which British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had, this morning in London, seemed to cautiously pave the way.
Source: BFM TV
