UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets Zelensky in Kyiv amid Russia-Ukraine tensions
Highlight
- Boris Johnson met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Saturday.
- The Embassy of Ukraine in the UK tweeted a picture of the two leaders.
- Johnson said he had gone to Ukraine to meet with President Zelensky as a show of solidarity.
United Kingdom President Boris Johnson met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Saturday, amid ongoing tensions between Russia and Ukraine.
The Embassy of Ukraine in the UK tweeted a picture of the two leaders. Meanwhile, Johnson said he went to Ukraine to meet with President Zelensky in a show of solidarity.
Meanwhile, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel on Friday expressed her “disappointment” at the slow process of resettling Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian conflict.
The Indian-origin minister was speaking in reference to the latest UK Home Office figures, which show the government has granted 41,000 visas to Ukrainians fleeing war zones, but only a quarter of the 12,500 have reached the UK.
In an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” that aired Friday, Zelensky said his country’s security service had intercepted communications from Russian soldiers who provided evidence of war crimes.
According to Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk, ten humanitarian corridors are to open to evacuate civilians in Ukraine’s east on Saturday. The corridor will allow residents to leave several cities in the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhya.
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