President Petro Poroshenko will go to Berlin to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel, before also meeting the French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris later the same day. The Ukrainian leader said the pre-election talks in France and Germany are crucial for "the fate of the Ukrainian state and of European security".
They were "especially important", he said, in the face of "attempts" to lift Western sanctions against Russia, imposed on Moscow after its 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula.
Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky and favorite to win Kiev's presidential election, was in Paris Friday to meet French President Emmanuel Macron. Meeting Macron would allow Zelensky to make clear his vision of the peace process in eastern Ukraine that has currently stalled, Litra said. Zelensky has suggested including the UK and the US in peace talks. After the first round of the vote, Volodymyr Zelensky said he would ask the Kremlin for compensation for the war and for taking Crimea.
France and Germany are part of the so-called Normandy peace talks with Ukraine and Russia that aim to end a conflict between Kiev and Russia in eastern Ukraine. The war has killed 13,000 people over the past five years.
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