German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, together with French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, plan to visit Ukraine ahead of the G7 summit scheduled for 26? June 28, according to the German publication Bild am Sonntag, referred to by nv. ua.

Scholz, Macron and Draghi want to demonstrate European unity with their trip, the newspaper writes. However, if the head of the European Commission, von der Leyen, during her visit to Kyiv on June 11, advocated the admission of Ukraine to the European Union, whether Scholz and Macron will support her proposal is still unclear..

Earlier, Scholz said that he would go to Kyiv only when “we are talking about specific things”. As for the President of France, he expressed his readiness to visit Ukraine after the decision of the EU regarding Kyiv's application for accession. According to Europe 1, Macron may announce new arms deliveries during his visit to Ukraine.

For his part, Chancellor Scholz is slowing down promised arms deliveries to Ukraine. Some of the deliveries are expected only in autumn. According to the Ambassador of Ukraine in Berlin, Andriy Melnyk, Germany has not yet delivered a single piece of heavy weapons to Ukraine..

Scholz, Macron and Draghi publicly advocate a diplomatic settlement of Russia's war against Ukraine, while also providing military assistance to Kyiv. German and French leaders regularly call Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, trying to convince him to carry out certain humanitarian missions and end the war..

According to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, in one of the telephone conversations, Macron suggested that he cede Ukrainian territory in order to “save face to Putin”.

The Italian government, led by Mario Draghi, has developed a four-stage plan to end the war, but it is unlikely to be implemented.

Earlier, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said that attempts to " She stressed that Russia's aggression must be met with force..