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Zelensky travels to Finland to meet with Nordic Leaders

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine arrived in Finland on Wednesday to meet with Nordic leaders, a rare overseas trip for the Ukrainian leader amid the Russian invasion, The New York Times reports.

The office of the Finnish president said in a statement that Mr. Zelensky was invited to hold talks in Helsinki on “Ukraine’s defense struggle and Finland’s support for Ukraine,” among other matters. Mr. Zelensky and Finland’s president, Sauli Niinisto, will hold a joint news conference after the discussions, it added.

Mr. Niinisto and Mr. Zelensky were also expected to meet with the prime ministers of Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland to “discuss the situation of Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine” and “the Nordic countries’ continued support for Ukraine,” as well as Ukraine’s relationship with the European Union and NATO, the statement said.

The Ukrainian president has made few overseas trips since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Last month he received a hero’s welcome on an official visit to Poland.

Mr. Zelensky will also travel to Germany for an official state visit on May 13, Berlin’s police department, which is tasked with providing security, confirmed on Wednesday.

Finland, which shares a long border with Russia, became NATO’s 31st member state last month. That was a significant blow to Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, who has strongly opposed the expansion of the trans-Atlantic military alliance.

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