President of the Czech Republic Peter Pavel and President of Slovakia Zuzana Chaputova on Friday morning, April 28, arrived in Kyiv on a joint visit. For the Czech President, this is the first trip to Ukraine in this status after his election to the post..

“The joint visit to Ukraine with President Pavel confirms a new era of relations between the heads of state of Slovakia and the Czech Republic. This is our first joint trip abroad and I am glad that she is going to Ukraine. Perhaps there are no two closer nations in the world than Slovaks and Czechs. … Our message is clear: Ukraine connects us not only with a border and a common past, but also with a common future,” Slovak President Chaputova wrote on Facebook.

She also posted a photo from Borodyanka in the Kiev region, which suffered from the war.

iDNES edition. cz notes that it was there that Pavel and Chaputov met the former Ambassador of Ukraine to the Czech Republic, Yevhen Perebiynis, and the Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Ukraine, Radek Matula.

“Places that will be destroyed by war will experience hard-to-heal traumas, horrors that cannot be forgotten.. People lose loved ones that no one can ever get back. I understand that it may be difficult for many of us to imagine and fully experience this because most of us have never experienced anything like it.. I am here with President Pavel so that we will never feel anything like this,” Chaputova added..

She called shameful today's Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities, resulting in the death of civilians.

The Czech edition writes that Pavel and Chaputova traditionally arrived in Kyiv by train from Poland. It is noted that they were taken by a government special vehicle to the Polish Rzeszow airport, from where a police convoy took them to a train to Przemysl.. The trip is accompanied by strict security measures - both presidents are guarded by armed guards.