Kyiv asks EU officials for a 9 May visit to counter Putin’s victory parade.

Nicholas Vinocur, Hans von der Burchard, Rasmus Buchsteiner   Politico.eu14 April 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government invited top European officials on 9 May to Kyiv as a show of diplomatic force against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual military parade in Moscow the same day.

Separately, on the same day, Zelenskyy would like to host leaders from the so-called coalition of the willing.