Zelenskyy Held 352 Telephone Conversations with Heads of Other States or Organisations

, 29 December 2022, 16:27

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has spoken on the phone 352 times with the heads of other states or international organisations from February 24 to December 28.

Serhii Nikiforov, press officer of Mr. Zelenskyy, has written about this on Facebook.

"The first conversations on February 24 (chronologically) - Joseph Biden, Olaf Scholz, Boris Johnson, Karl Nehammer, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Magdalena Andersson, Charles Michel, and Emmanuel Macron. The last for now - on December 27 with Giorgia Meloni," the message reads.

According to the Presidential Protocol Service statistics, Zelenskyy has addressed online 186 times. For the first time - on March 1, the European Parliament. The last time was on December 28 with Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock.

The president has met with representatives of states, companies, organisations, or private persons 110 times. The first meeting occurred on March 15 with Prime Ministers Mateusz Morawiecki, Janez Janša, and Petr Fiala. The latest was on December 28 with the Minister of the Armed Forces of France, Sébastien Lecornu.

Zelenskyy participated in internal events 173 times and held 44 meetings of the Stavka.

"The statistics include only official calls and events. We do not plan to have days off, so it will change by the New Year," added Nikiforov.

In his annual message to Ukraine's parliament, Zelenskyy said that during the 10 months of war, Ukraine has managed to unite the European Union around itself in a joint fight against Russia.