Ukraine snubs German president over past Russia links
by Philip Oltermann in Berlin from World news | The Guardian on (#5Y3NM)
Zelenskiy rejects request by Frank-Walter Steinmeier for meeting in Kyiv, Bild reports
Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has rejected a request by the German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, to visit Kyiv along with other European politicians on Wednesday.
Steinmeier, a former foreign minister and erstwhile ally of the ex-chancellor Gerhard Schroder, is on a state visit in Poland, where he is discussing the implications of the Russian war in Ukraine with his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda.
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