The president of Ukraine, Volodímir Zelensky, and next Tuesday, the 18th, a visit to the Congress of Deputies is already scheduled, as parliamentary sources have informed EFE.
Until now, the exact date of the Ukrainian president’s trip for security reasons had not been revealed, where he will be received by the president of the Chamber, Francina Armengol, and by the president of the Senate, Pedro Rollán. He will meet with both in the Hall of Lost Steps of the Palace of the Cortes, the same sources have pointed out.
Zelensky thus resumes a trip to Spain that had to be canceled in April of this year so that the Ukrainian leader could attend Pope Francis’ funeral in the Vatican. The president of Ukraine will be in Paris on Monday, where he will be received by his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron — with whom he will discuss the security guarantees that kyiv’s allies can offer if a ceasefire is achieved with Russia — and from there he will travel to Madrid.
In the absence of the full agenda for this trip to Spain being made known, it is possible that Zelensky will attend the , a work of art that has become an international symbol of rejection of war. The Ukrainian president was in Spain in 2022, when he gave a speech before the Cortes in which he referred precisely to the bombing of the Basque city by German troops during the Civil War to compare it with the situation in his country, attacked by Russia.
“We are in April 2022, but it seems like we are in April 1937,” he said then. The Government of Spain will take advantage of its presence to convey its full support and the need to continue putting pressure on Russia, as recently announced by government sources.
On October 21, Zelenski agreed, in a telephone conversation with the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to a new meeting between the two that has not yet been announced by Moncloa. In that conversation, the Ukrainian president thanked Spain for sending 70 generators to support the reconstruction of the country’s energy system in the face of constant Russian bombings.
Sánchez explained in a message on
