First State Visit By Ukrainian President
Update: 2025-12-02
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Volodymyr Zelensky visits Ireland today, in the first state visit by a Ukrainian President to the country.
It comes as the Government is to approve an additional one hundred million euro in non-lethal aid to Ukraine.
This morning Mr. Zelenskyy will make a courtesy call to President Catherine Connolly.
From there he'll joint press conference with Taoiseach Micheál Martin, before addressing the Oireachtas.
To discuss this further, Alan Morrissey was joined by Mariya Nikishanova, who’s originally from Irpin and moved to Ennis a decade ago and Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Newmarket-on-Fergus native and Professor of Politics at Dublin City University.
Photo (c) Яна Леоненко from Pexels via Canva
It comes as the Government is to approve an additional one hundred million euro in non-lethal aid to Ukraine.
This morning Mr. Zelenskyy will make a courtesy call to President Catherine Connolly.
From there he'll joint press conference with Taoiseach Micheál Martin, before addressing the Oireachtas.
To discuss this further, Alan Morrissey was joined by Mariya Nikishanova, who’s originally from Irpin and moved to Ennis a decade ago and Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Newmarket-on-Fergus native and Professor of Politics at Dublin City University.
Photo (c) Яна Леоненко from Pexels via Canva
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