2.26 pm – The face-to-face meeting between Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Palazzo Chigi has ended. The interview started at 13.05 and lasted one hour and ten minutes.
1.53 pm – The two-way conversation between Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Palazzo Chigi, which began at 13.05, will take place in English without interpreters. Meanwhile, the two delegations, in the Green Room, have begun to exchange views. The Italian delegation includes Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, Defense Minister Guido Crosetto, Undersecretary Giovanbattista Fazzolari and Ambassador Francesco Talò, diplomatic adviser to the Prime Minister, and the Italian Ambassador in Kiev Pier Francesco Zazo. In the Ukrainian delegation, among others, also Andriy Yermak, the head of the office of the Ukrainian president. At the end of the meetings there will be a working lunch, followed by the joint declarations to the press by Meloni and Zelensky in the Sala dei Galleoni.
Zelensky in Rome, the meeting at the Quirinale with Mattarella
1.48 pm – “In Rome I met with the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella. I am grateful for the consistent stance on support for Ukraine. We appreciate the important military assistance which gives our country the ability to resist Russian aggression. The key to our success on the battlefield is the timely receipt of necessary assistance. Italy was and is on the right side, on the side of truth in this war. We are moving in the direction of victory. Victory means peace for our state” . Thus Volodymyr Zelensky in a message on Telegram in Ukrainian and Italian.
1.24 pm – “I am here to thank Italy. I would like to embrace the Italians one by one for the support that has been continuously offered to us at all levels and which has not changed with the governments (Draghi and Meloni). We have common values with Italy We are for peace, our victory is peace. We are open to all international contributions but we are suffering war on our territory and peace must provide for justice throughout our territory”. According to what has been learned, this is what the Ukrainian president, Volodomir Zelensky, said during the talks at the Quirinale with Sergio Mattarella.
1.23 pm – Italy, in collaboration with the main Allies, will continue to provide the necessary support, including military support, so that a just peace can be reached for Ukraine, which can only exist if Russia ceases hostilities. It is one of the concepts, as far as we learn, that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will express in the conversation that has just begun with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. At the same time, it is explained, Italy will continue to support a rigorous application of sanctions which are one of the main tools against the aggressor, together with the financial and military ones, to end hostilities.
Zelensky in Rome, the arrival at the Quirinale
1:16 pm – “The peace, for which we all work, must restore justice and international law. It must be a true peace and not a surrender”. This is what the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella is reported to have said to the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during the meeting at the Quirinale.
1.15 pm – “I reconfirm Italy’s full support for Ukraine in terms of military, financial, humanitarian aid and reconstruction, in the short and long term. Not only the independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine are at stake, but also freedom of peoples and international order”. This is what the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella is reported to have said to the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during the meeting at the Quirinale.
1:12 pm – The meeting between Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to what has been learned, will be an opportunity to reaffirm Italy’s firm support for all aspects of Ukraine, for its territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Kiev and the closeness of the Italian people to the Ukrainian people committed to defending the shared values of freedom and democracy jeopardized by the Russian invasion war.
1.02 pm – The prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, welcomed the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in the courtyard of Palazzo Chigi. There was an embrace between the two, followed by a handshake in front of the cameras in the courtyard of Palazzo Chigi, where Zelensky was welcomed by the picket with military honors.
13:00 – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has arrived at Palazzo Chigi for the meeting with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. On the door of the seat of the Presidency of the Council, according to the protocol, the flag of the European Union is waving, with the Italian tricolor in the center and then that of the Ukraine. After the working lunch, joint statements to the press are expected.
Zelensky in Rome, the passage of the president’s procession towards Palazzo Chigi
12:48 – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has just left the Quirinale after meeting the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and is now on his way to Palazzo Chigi, where he will meet Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and have a working lunch. Before leaving the Quirinale Zelensky said goodbye to Mattarella after about 25 minutes of conversation, greeting him smiling with a handshake.
12:29 – “It is an honor to have you here in Rome. I asked to meet you again after our conversation years ago even if in this different condition, we are fully at your side. Welcome, president”. President Sergio Mattarella said this to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky at the Quirinale table where the two delegations, Italian and Ukrainian, are meeting.
12.17 pm – It is an intense Saturday for Pope Francis, who has faced a morning full of audiences, awaiting the meeting in the afternoon with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. The Pope held six audiences this morning, issued the new ‘Constitution’ of the Holy See and appointed four new bishops in various parts of the world.
12.07 am – The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella welcomed the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the courtyard of the Quirinale. The two greeted each other with a handshake and then watched the honors of the departments and their respective national anthems. The Ukrainian flag was hoisted on the Quirinal tower.
12:03 – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived at the Quirinale to meet the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella. To welcome the guard of honor in the palace courtyard.
Zelensky welcomed at Ciampino by Tajani
11.58 am – The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has just left the hotel that hosts him in the center of Rome to go to the Quirinale.
11.45 am – Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has arrived at Palazzo Chigi. Here, around 1 pm, you will receive the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. The program has not been officially confirmed but, after a working lunch, the two leaders are expected to make joint statements to the press.
11.35 am – Pope Francis will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “after 3 pm”. Vatican sources report it. Zelensky, after the Pope, will also have a meeting at the Vatican Secretariat of State.
10:51 am – The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has just arrived in a well-known hotel in Rome, before going to the Quirinale to see the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella.
10.42 am – “Italy welcomes the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. We renew our commitment alongside the Ukrainian people, in defense of freedom and democracy”. The Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani wrote it on Twitter.
10.37 am – The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, in sweatshirt and camouflage, smiling, greeted by the deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Antonio Tajani upon his arrival at the Roman airport of Ciampino, climbed aboard an armored car in which, under heavy escort, he left the Roman airport at 10.22.
10.35 am – The Air Force Airbus A319 with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on board, visiting Italy for the first time since the start of the Russian invasion, landed on the Ciampino airport runway. To welcome him, amid enormous security measures and with two carabinieri and two airmen lined up in full uniform at the foot of the ladder, the deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, the Ukrainian ambassador to Italy Yaroslav Melnyk and the Italian ambassador in Kiev Pier Francesco Zazo.
10.29 am – “Rome. Meetings with the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Pope Francis. An important visit for the victory of Ukraine”. The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky writes it on Telegram, already arrived in Rome.
10:21 am – The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky – according to what is learned – is expected at the Quirinale, for the two-way meeting with the president Sergio Mattarella, between 11.30 and noon. The one with the President of the Republic is the first of four appointments in Rome for Zelensky who is expected at lunchtime at Palazzo Chigi by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani. In the afternoon – around 4 pm – he will therefore be with the Pope and an interview with Bruno Vespa for Porta a Porta is scheduled for 6.30 pm.
10:13 am – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has landed at Ciampino airport in Rome. Foreign Minister Tajani awaits him.
10.07 am – Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani is at Ciampino airport awaiting the arrival of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
09.48 am – Amid enormous security measures, Ciampino airport is preparing to welcome the arrival of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky this morning. Checks are already carried out at the entrance to the Roman airport where Police and Carabinieri cars and mobile phones are parked. Off-limits is also the area of the 31st Wing of the Air Force where the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, will welcome the Ukrainian president.
09.46 am – The security plan in Rome is already operational for the arrival of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. More than a thousand law enforcement officers are employed. The Rome Police Headquarters has launched a plan that also includes a no-fly zone and a ban on drones flying over. At work bomb squad, helicopters and snipers. Reclamation and control activities also carried out in the subsoil. The area around the Parco dei Principi hotel in Parioli, which should be the headquarters chosen by the Ukrainian president, is guarded by the police. The Tiber river and the parks are monitored, where vigilance is also ensured by the mounted unit, while control from the air is entrusted to police helicopters. The anti-terrorism police and carabinieri units are also on the field.
Ukraine, Prigozhin: ‘Russian regular forces flee from Bakhmut’
Source: Ansa
I have been working in the news website industry for over 4 years now, first as a reporter and then as an editor. I enjoy writing about politics news and am also an author. I try to cover a lot of different angles when it comes to my articles so that readers can get a well-rounded understanding of the story.
