Within the lead-up to the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, visits of world leaders have picked up in Kyiv.

U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday was the newest overseas dignitary to fulfill together with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine. On the go to that had been stored a secret beforehand, Biden reconfirmed the U.S.’ “unwavering dedication to Ukraine’s democracy, sovereignty, and territorial integrity”. The nation later introduced further navy and different help.

As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz experiences, going off the web site of the Workplace of President Zelensky, he has been greater than busy over the previous yr assembly overseas heads of state or authorities in addition to the leaders of the UN and the EU within the Kyiv presidential palace or – in fewer instances – in Lviv or Odessa.

As of Feb. 20, Zelensky had acquired seven visits by world leaders in 2023, amongst them these from the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden.

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Between September and November 2022, Zelensky had acquired three such visits per 30 days (and none in December), whereas between April and August, Ukraine had nonetheless counted eight high-ranking guests per 30 days.

The primary go to of overseas leaders to Kyiv had really taken place on Mar. 16, 2022 – three weeks after Russia’s invasion – by the prime ministers of Poland, Czech Republic and Slovenia: Mateusz Morawiecki, Petr Fiala and Janez Janša.

The Ukrainian president has to date acquired not less than one go to from nearly all bigger European international locations apart from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary and Belarus. Some international locations, for instance Greece, Estonia and Moldova, determined to ship their consultant head of state as an alternative of their authorities chief. Regardless of this, Estonia is certainly one of Ukraine’s greatest allies and has made a complete of 4 high-ranking delegation visits to Ukraine – as many as Germany, France and the Netherlands.

Counting all visits by nation leaders, consultant heads of state in addition to ministers, Poland has made probably the most visits at 9. The nation the place the prime minister and the president, Mateusz Morawiecki and Andrzej Duda, share energy has seen visits made by each to Kyiv in addition to Lviv on the Polish border. Extra visits have been made by the nation’s ministers of overseas affairs and protection. The following most visits have been made by UK officers – three by Boris Johnson, as early as Apr. 9, and one by present PM Rishi Sunak on Nov. 19. Probably the most far-flung visits to Ukraine up to now yr have been made by the leaders of Indonesia, Australia, Guatemala, Canada and Guinea-Bissau.

Volodymyr Zelensky has acquired much more visits from different overseas delegations – political, financial or humanitarian.

Whereas the president’s deputies and workers do deal with some conferences, U.S. parliamentarians like Nancy Pelosi, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, Eric Swalwell and Amy Klobuchar have all met with Zelensky up to now yr, as have Sean Penn, Ben Stiller, Richard Branson and Palantir CEO Alex Karp. The Ukrainian president is thought to have left the nation solely sparsely because the invasion however has taken half through video hyperlink in quite a few assemblies of state parliaments and worldwide organizations, conferences, shows to lecturers and college students and even movie festivals. He did journey overseas within the final yr twice – to look in U.S. Congress in December and to the UK, France, Belgium and Poland this February.