The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, will officially visit Spain in the next few days, and a visit to the Congress of Deputies is already planned next Tuesday, the 18th, as parliamentary sources told EFE.
Until now, the exact date of the Ukrainian president’s trip had not been revealed for security reasons, but the visit to Congress has already been confirmed, where he will be received by the president of the Chamber, Francina Armengol, and the president of the Senate, Pedro Rollán. The meeting with both will be in the Sala dei Passi Perduti of the Palazzo delle Cortes, the same sources specify.
Zelensky thus resumes a trip to Spain that had to be canceled in April 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 Kiev’s allies can offer if a ceasefire is reached with Russia – and from there he will travel to Madrid.
In the absence of a full agenda for the trip to Spain, it is possible that Zelenskyj will go to the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum to see the work Guernica by Picasso, a work of art that has become an international symbol of the rejection of war. The Ukrainian president was in Spain in 2022, when he gave a speech in front of the Cortes in which he referred 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.
“It’s April 2022, but it feels like April 1937,” he said at the time. The Spanish government will take advantage of its presence to express its full support and the need to continue to put pressure on Russia, as recently announced by government sources.
On October 21, Zelenskiy agreed, in a telephone conversation with the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, on a new meeting between the two which 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 despite continued Russian bombing.
Sánchez explained it in a message on
