Argentina’s President Javier Milei provides a menorah to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on the Casa Rosada Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 10, 2023. Picture shared via Ukrainian Presidential Press Provider/Handout by way of REUTERS
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to Buenos Aires to witness the swearing-in on Sunday of Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei.
It’s the Ukrainian chief’s first-ever commute to Latin The us as Kyiv continues to court docket fortify amongst growing international locations for its 21-month-old battle towards Russia’s invading forces.
Milei welcomed Zelenskyy on the presidential palace after his inauguration. The 2 shared a longer hug, exchanged phrases after which Milei, who has mentioned he intends to transform to Judaism, offered his Ukrainian counterpart with a menorah as a present. They had been anticipated to have an extended one-on-one assembly afterward Sunday.
A political outsider who has railed towards what he calls entrenched legit corruption in Argentina and promised to uproot the political established order, Milei ran on a pro-Western overseas coverage platform, time and again expressing mistrust of Moscow and Beijing.
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Zelenskyy phoned Milei in a while after the Argentine’s electoral victory, thanking him for his “transparent fortify for Ukraine” which he described in social media posts as “well-noticed and favored via Ukrainians.”
In its readout of the decision printed in a while afterwards, Milei’s place of work mentioned he had introduced to host a summit between Ukraine and Latin American states, a possible boon to Kyiv’s monthslong effort to support its relationships with nations of the worldwide south.
Zelenskyy and different senior Ukrainian officers have time and again offered Ukraine’s struggle towards Russia as resistance towards colonial aggression, hoping to win fortify from Asian, African and Latin American states that previously struggled to loose themselves from overseas domination, from time to time turning to Moscow for fortify towards Western powers.
Zelenskyy used the commute to Argentina to fulfill leaders of a number of growing nations. He met the high minister of the West African nation of Cape Verde, Ulisses Correia e Silva, on his technique to Buenos Aires. As soon as in Argentina, Zelenskyy met one at a time with the presidents of Paraguay, Ecuador and Uruguay, his place of work mentioned.
“The fortify and robust united voice of Latin American nations that stand with the folk of Ukraine within the struggle for our freedom and democracy is essential for us,” Zelenskyy mentioned in a remark.
He additionally had a telephone dialog with French President Emmanuel Macron, discussing “the main points of the following protection package deal from the French Republic, which can considerably improve Ukraine’s firepower, and the present wishes of our nation in armaments,” Zelenskyy’s place of work mentioned.
In different trends:
Russian shelling over the last 24 hours killed two aged ladies and wounded two extra civilians in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv area, native Gov. Oleh Syniehubov reported on Sunday morning. In a Telegram replace, Syniehubov mentioned that each ladies died in the similar assault within the province’s east, portions of which run just about the entrance line and feature observed intense preventing in fresh weeks.
Within the Kherson area within the south, Russian shelling on Saturday and in a single day killed one civilian and wounded 4 others, native Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin mentioned on Telegram on Sunday.
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Argentina’s President Javier Milei provides a menorah to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on the Casa Rosada Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dec. 10, 2023. Picture shared via Ukrainian Presidential Press Provider/Handout by way of REUTERS
