(Reuters) – A top adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday denied in an interview with CNN that Zelenskiy had rejected an offer to visit by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, as reported by Bild newspaper.
Steinmeier said on Tuesday that he had planned to visit Kiev with his Polish counterpart and the presidents of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia “to send a strong signal of European solidarity with Ukraine… (but) that was not wanted in Kiev.”
Bild reported that Zelenskiy had rejected Steinmeier’s plans to visit Kiev due to his close relations with Russia in recent years and his long-standing support for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a project to double the flow of Russian gas directly to Germany, but which was canceled after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Serhiy Leshchenko, however, denied the content of the Bild report.
(Reporting by Max Hunder)
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