Ukraine conflict: Steinmeier and Zelenskyy have ‘good, constructive, important conversation’
By DW
07 May 2022 |
8:13 am
The German president and Chancellor Olaf Scholz have both been invited to Kyiv, according to Frank-Walter Steinmeier's office. He had planned to go to Kyiv in April, but was told not to come on the eve of his trip.
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