German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has canceled his journey to Kyiv for “safety causes,” Bild reported Wednesday night.
Steinmeier’s go to to Ukraine’s capital, which had been organized for weeks, was speculated to happen this Thursday — however the two ministries in cost and German safety authorities suggested canceling the journey amid an escalation in Russian air assaults on Kyiv and different cities in latest weeks.
Steinmeier’s journey to the Ukrainian capital has been the reason for vital diplomatic rigidity between Berlin and Kyiv.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy indicated in April that Steinmeier wasn’t welcome in Kyiv, with Ukrainian diplomats citing his beforehand mushy stance towards Russian President Vladimir Putin. However in Might, Zelenskyy reversed his place, inviting each German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Steinmeier to Kyiv.
In an announcement, a spokeswoman for Steinmeier mentioned the journey is “necessary to either side” and “shut and confidential planning” is ongoing. She additionally introduced a telephone name between the 2 presidents occurring Thursday. The brand new Ukrainian envoy to Germany, Oleksii Makeiev, concurrently posted the identical textual content.
