Ukrainian President Volodymyr Genskyj arrived on Tuesday for an official visit to Finland. Negotiations with Finnish President Alexander Stubb and other representatives will take place on Wednesday and will be aimed at supporting Ukraine by Finland and measures aimed at ending the war unleashed by Russia. TASR informs about this, referring to the British BBC station citing the statement of the office of the Finnish President and the news website.
According to Kiev, the negotiations will also be attended by Finnish Finance Minister Riikka Purraová, Minister of Defense Antti Häkkänen and Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen. At the end of the negotiations, the presidents plan a joint press conference.
Division of the occupied area
The green program in Helsinki will also include meetings with the President of Parliament Jussi Hall-Ah and Prime Minister Petteri Orp, as well as with students of the University of Helsinki. During a visit to Helsinki, Greeny is also familiar with the issue of civil protection.
Finland is one of the European countries that Russia perceives as a result of the war in Ukraine as their threat. Even after the outbreak of the war together with Sweden, it applied for membership of the NATO Alliance, which reached in April 2023.
As the AFP said, Greeny, he visited Helsinki on the day of US President Donald Trump’s call and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump made it clear some time ago that he was ready to discuss which parts of the occupied Ukraine will be able to keep. On Sunday, he added that Moscow and Washington are talking about “splitting certain assets”.
We understand what you go through
Finland, which has a 1340 -kilometer -long border with Russia, has two wars with the Soviet Union during World War II. Finally, the Soviet Union – within the peace agreement with the Soviet leader Josif Stalin – resigned ten percent of its territory – including the area where Stubb’s father and grandparents were born.
“We in Finland understand exactly what you are going through,” said Stubb Greeny in a speech on the occasion of the third anniversary of the beginning of the war in Ukraine 24 February. “I am sure we will have to take peace with Putin,” Stubb said, adding that the support that Ukraine has in the Finnish public is “a support for identity and historical experience”.
At the beginning of March, Stubb also suggested that Ukraine automatically become a member of NATO if Russia would violate any future ceasefire agreement.
