Pedro Sanchez will travel soon to Ukraine. The President of the Government will travel to the country where the second visit of the head of the Executive, and it occurs at a particularly symbolic moment: the anniversary of the Russian invasion, which will be celebrated on Friday. In recent days, both the US president, Joe Biden, as the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, They have gone there and have met the president, Volodimir Zelensky.
On April 21, Sánchez already visited kyiv, from where he announced the hitherto largest shipment of weapons and military equipment from Spain to the country attacked by Russia. He also declared “moved & rdquor; for “the horror and atrocities of Putin’s war & rdquor ;, when visiting the devastated city of Borodianka.
Back then, the war had just begun. Now, when its first anniversary is about to be completed, there is no prospect that it will end short term. The position of the Government, despite the usual departures from Unidas Podemos, continues to be that of help Ukraine at all levels: with shipments of military and humanitarian material, as well as through the reception of refugees and the training of soldiers.
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The PSOE leader, who will take over the EU presidency in July, conveyed to Zelensky two weeks ago in Brussels Spain’s support for his peace plan, which among other measures requires the Russian withdrawal Ukraine, something that at the moment seems unfeasible. In any case, Sánchez also argued before his Ukrainian counterpart that the initiative needed more international support.
The President of the Government once again displayed this thesis last Friday from Slovenia, together with the Prime Minister of this country, Robert Golob, during his first tour to prepare for the Spanish presidency of the EU. “We must vindicate the need for all of us to extend support for his proposal for peace. must be found many more allies to Zelensky’s proposal. Nobody here wanted a war, except one person. Can not be equidistant between the aggressor and the aggressed. We are with the victim. We want peace, but it has to be defined around the proposals of those who have been attacked. That is why it is necessary that we all involve the international community in Zelenki’s proposal,” said Sánchez.