South Korean President Yoon Sok-yeol arrived in Kiev. transmits Yonhap, referring to the press service of the head of state. According to the agency, no official statement has been made regarding the South Korean leader’s visit, so it is considered unannounced.
“According to Kim Eun-hye, the President’s senior secretary for media relations, Yoon Seok-yeol and First Lady Kim Keon-hee arrived in Ukraine after visiting Poland. and Irpin. He plans to lay a wreath at the conflict memorial ahead of his summit meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky,” the statement said.
According to Yonhap, the trip to Ukraine will be the final chord of Yoon Seok-yeol’s two-stage mini tour. The agency emphasizes that the President of South Korea first visited Lithuania, where he attended the North Atlantic Alliance summit, and then came to Warsaw for an official visit. Meanwhile, a number of South Korean media outlets did not rule out that Yun Sok Yol could visit Kiev as part of the trip, but the country’s authorities denied the existence of such plans.
He had previously pointed to the initiatives of Russia, the USA and NATO. to pull South Korea during the Ukraine crisis.