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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit Romania next week for the first time since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian president will meet with his Romanian counterpart Klaus Iohannis as well as other senior officials in the country, according to Romanian media outlet Digi24.
Russia has hammered Ukrainian Danube river ports for months at the frontier with Romania, with debris from Moscow’s drones found on Romanian soil after a blitz by the Kremlin’s forces.
A potential visit to Romania was first announced by Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal in an exclusive interview he gave to the same news outlet in August but didn’t reveal the exact dates of the visit.
Romania has been a staunch supporter of Ukraine, as it fends off Russia’s aggression.
More than half of Ukrainian exports using the EU’s solidarity lanes — corridors set up to facilitate transit by road, rail and inland waterway — come through Romania.
In the early days of Putin’s invasion, Romania recorded an increase in the number of cyberattacks aimed at its infrastructure and Bucharest authorities found that a vast majority of the IP addresses where the attacks originated were based in Russia.
