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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will visit Brussels and London later this week after meetings held in Norway and Sweden on Wednesday, a senior Ukrainian official told AFP.
The official said multiple meetings would be held in the European capitals, including on energy amid repeated Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy facilities.
Russia’s latest overnight barrage on Ukraine killed at least six people in and around the capital Kyiv and triggered power cuts across the country, according to authorities.
During talks with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, both leaders were to “discuss energy”, the Ukrainian official told AFP as their meeting began Wednesday.
The two leaders met in the military part of Oslo’s international airport Gardermoen, television images on public broadcaster NRK showed. Norway did not give any details about the talks.
Zelensky’s itinerary is “first Norway, then Sweden, then Brussels, then London,” the source said, adding there will be “many meetings” with “different leaders in different capitals”.
EU leaders are set to close ranks in support of Ukraine at a Brussels summit on Thursday – followed a day later by a “coalition of the willing” meeting of European leaders in London to discuss the next steps to help Kyiv.
Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, describing it as a “special military operation” to demilitarise the country and prevent the expansion of NATO.
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