KYIV, Ukraine, 10 Dec (AP): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is heading to Buenos Aires to witness the swearing-in on Sunday of Argentina\u2019s new president, Javier Milei, Zelenskyy\u2019s office said.
\nIt is the Ukrainian leader\u2019s first-ever trip to Latin America as Kyiv continues to court support among developing nations for its 21-month-old fight against Russia\u2019s invading forces.
\nA political outsider who has railed against what he calls entrenched official corruption in Argentina and promised to uproot the political establishment, Milei ran on a pro-Western foreign policy platform, repeatedly expressing distrust of Moscow and Beijing.
\nZelenskyy phoned Milei shortly after the Argentinian\u2019s electoral victory, thanking him for his \u201cclear support for Ukraine\u201d which he described in social media posts as \u201cwell-noticed and appreciated by Ukrainians.\u201d
\nIn its readout of the call published shortly later, Milei\u2019s office said he had offered to host a summit between Ukraine and Latin American states, a potential boon to Kyiv\u2019s monthslong effort to strengthen its relationships with countries of the global south.
\nZelenskyy and other senior Ukrainian officials have repeatedly presented Ukraine\u2019s war against Russia as resistance against colonial aggression, hoping to win support from Asian, African and Latin American states that in the past struggled to free themselves from foreign domination, sometimes turning to Moscow for support against Western powers.
\nAccording to Zelenskyy\u2019s official website, he broke his journey to Argentina to meet with the prime minister of the West African country of Cape Verde, Ulisses Correia e Silva, thanking him for his support for Kyiv\u2019s diplomatic initiatives and discussing efforts to boost Ukrainian grain exports to Africa. It was not immediately clear where the meeting took place.
\nZelenskyy expressed his appreciation for Cape Verde\u2019s backing of U.N. resolutions supporting Ukraine\u2019s territorial integrity and calling for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukrainian territory before peace talks can begin.
\nThe African country previously supported U.N. documents condemning Russia\u2019s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. AP<\/p>\n
According to Zelenskyy\u2019s website, he and Correia e Silva also discussed Kyiv\u2019s efforts to expand a corridor for grain exports in the Black Sea that has seen over 7 million metric tons of Ukrainian produce shipped out since its inception, months after Moscow pulled out of a U.N.-brokered deal to facilitate shipments of Ukrainian and Russian food and fertilizer to countries in need, as well as a proposal to establish transport and storage hubs for Ukrainian grain in Africa.
\nIn other developments:
\n\u2014 Russian shelling over the past 24 hours killed two elderly women and wounded two more civilians in Ukraine\u2019s northeastern Kharkiv region, local Gov. Oleh Syniehubov reported on Sunday morning. In a Telegram update, Syniehubov said that both women died in the same attack in the province\u2019s east, parts of which run close to the front line and have seen intense fighting in recent weeks.
\nIn the Kherson region in the south, Russian shelling on Saturday and overnight killed one civilian and wounded four others, local Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin said on Telegram on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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