The President of Argentina, Javier Milei, confirmed the date of his visit to Kyiv. This will be his second meeting with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Milei announced a visit to Ukraine
Milei will visit Ukraine in June and meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.
On March 5, President Milei confirmed this by sharing an article from the local publication Infobae on his personal account on the X platform.
This will be the first visit of the leader of a Latin American country to Ukraine since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
The President of Argentina will arrive in Kyiv in June after presenting the Juan de Mariana awards in Madrid and the Hayek medal in Hamburg and does not rule out stops in Paris and Berlin to meet with Macron and Scholz.
The award ceremony is scheduled for June 21. It will demonstrate the absence of Milei's political relationship with Pedro Sánchez: the Argentine President will not meet with the Spanish head of state and plans to meet with the opposition to the socialist government.
Milei longs for an alliance with Ukraine and the United States
Milei plans to hold a "Latin America Support Summit" for Ukraine at the end of 2024.
The Financial Times notes that Milei differs from other regional leaders, such as Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Mexico's Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who have taken a more neutral stance on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
At the same time, Milei favours alliances with "countries that defend freedom," including the United States, Israel, which he visited earlier this month, and Ukraine, to which he gave two Russian-made military helicopters.
Javier Milei, a libertarian economist, was elected President of Argentina in Dec. 2023. Among others, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was present at his inauguration.
Milei stated that Argentina under his rule would shape its international policy according to the policies of the United States and Israel.
