If nothing goes wrong, the president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, will address the Congress of Deputies next week. This is how diplomatic sources from the Ukrainian delegation in Spain transferred them to this newspaper. Embassies and Chamber presidents, Meritxell Batetthey are “finishing preparations”.

All parliamentary groups supported the letter sent from Carrera de San Jerónimo to Zelenski. An agreement between the parties was reached on March 10 and the letter was sent on the 15th of the same month.

The government, despite being parliamentary, took a deep breath. Spain remains in that sense at the edge of Europe. The Ukrainian president has telematically transferred his war vision to the camera – in this order – Britain, Germany, Italy, France and Sweden. In addition, the appearance in Greece is already scheduled for March 7 – also next week. That tour promulgated, as expected, in the European Parliament.

Beyond the old continent, Zelenski has also spoken with representatives of the United States and Canada. Spain is part of a less relevant country. Or at least the least relevant in the eyes of the leaders of the Ukrainian media.

However, the country’s diplomatic sources consulted by EL ESPAÑOL, presumably because they are “diplomats”, confirmed that the delay may be for “organic reasons” as “President Zelensky did not receive the invitation until March 15”. By that date, the former comedian had already left for England or Germany.

“The president’s office handles more work than it can handle petition from all over the world. Parliament, media… The same thing happened with our embassy in Spain, where ten people work,” these sources repeat.

Far from investigating wounds, in government Kievat least in public, limiting myself to showing that Zelensky was talking to Pedro Sanchez three days after the Russian invasion took place and it happened again on March 9.

On that occasion, Zelensky more expressed his gratitude to Spain, which had ordered the delivery of arms directly to kyiv. At the same time, reviewing these sources, the Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs are in constant touch.

Division in government

Shortly after the war started in Ukraine, as the country’s embassy in Spain could verify, the government split. PSOE and Podemos condemned the invasion, but the people of Yolanda Diazo they started singing a kind of “no to war” calling for only “diplomacy”.

In fact, some ministers on the purple side of the coalition threatened to resign if Spain sent arms directly to kyiv. Paul’s ChurchAt the time, he said they would end up in Putin’s hands once he conquered the region.

Today, the Ukrainian armed forces have chained up resistance for more than a month and it seems that Putin has resigned himself to attacking Donbas for the impossibility of taking kyiv.

Yolanda Díaz, finally, supported Sánchez in sending weapons, but they didn’t Irene Montero HI Belarusian Ione. The executive continues to be broken in that sense. Therefore, the socialist faction, the presidential faction, is trying to make this gap invisible with increasingly gradual support for Ukraine.

In his speeches to the European parliament, Zelensky often used the historical parallel. Most likely it will also happen in Spain, as has been done in France, Germany, England or Italy.

The Ukrainian president, highly articulate, recalled the trauma of war in each country as a prologue before calling for a bigger commitment, “more help”. Like Joseph Borrell In your last interview with this newspaper, you might ask: “Would you be disappointed if a democracy like France or England helped the Second Republic during the Civil War?” That question, Borrell’s question, was addressed to those who, like Podemos, objected to direct arms deliveries.

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