Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Cameron has travelled to wartime Kyiv to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for talks on his first working trip abroad.
Former prime minister Cameron, who was named as Britain’s new foreign minister on Monday, said in a video posted by Zelenskiy’s office that he wanted to underscore London’s support for Ukraine.
Zelenskiy said he was grateful for the gesture, which comes amid a conflict in the Middle East that he said had drawn global attention away from Ukraine’s war with Russia, which is now in its 21st month and and has no end in sight.
The show of support comes as Ukraine is watching closely for any sign that vital Western military and financial assistance for Kyiv is flagging after its much-vaunted counteroffensive against Russian forces failed to yield a major breakthrough.
Ukraine is trying to build up a Black Sea shipping corridor to revive its seaborne exports, defying threats from Moscow which quit a U.N.-brokered deal in July that had allowed some food exports to flow despite the war.
The Ukrainian statements did not say when the talks took place.
