Volodymyr Zelensky will return to Spain. It will be in the next few days, still unspecified, as . The visit, of an official nature, will be the second of the Ukrainian leader in our country, where he already was last year to seal a bilateral security and military provision agreement for kyiv.
In the absence of the two governments defining the details, for security reasons as the teams allege, it is known that Zelensky will have a meeting and posing with Pedro Sánchezwith whom and whom he has received in kyiv on several occasions.
It has been announced that one of Zelensky’s official acts with Sánchez will be a visit to the Reina Sofia Museum in Madridto be able see in person the Guernica by Pablo Picasso.
It is not a mere artistic interest in the great work of the great painter from Malaga. Zelensky referred, at the beginning of the Russian invasion, to bombing about said Basque town in the Civil Waras a simile of the hell that the Ukrainian people lived then (and still today).
Then, Zelensky assured that “We are in April 2022″ but it seems like “April 1937”in the Spanish Civil War, when Guernica was bombed by the German Condor Legion. Faced with the imminent threat, the local population had to hide in basementsas best he could, similar to what the Ukrainian population is forced to do, the European leader added in his speech to Congress.
In the first months of the invasion decreed by Putin, Volodimir Zelensky spoke numerous speeches in the parliaments of the main powers European and global, always dedicating a historical reference of the national past with which link to present in Ukraineas was the case with the bombing of Guernica in Spain.
Once the first wave of war was overcome and a relatively stable front, Zelensky began a new diplomatic phase, with recurring trips abroad for the signing of new agreements. Although the most relevant and recurrent trips have been to the United States, they have spread to dozens of countries, including Spain.
In May 2024, the Ukrainian president was received by both Pedro Sánchez in La Moncloa and Felipe VI in the Royal Palace, in a . Such was the relevance that Spain gave to the event that the king himself went to Barajas to receive Zelensky.
