South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol made a surprise visit to Ukraine on Saturday, offering support while demonstrating his nation’s cooperation with NATO.
In May, when Yoon met Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska in Seoul, the president said he would expand South Korea’s non-lethal aid to Ukraine. Yoon’s spokesperson, Lee Do Woon, said at the time that Zelenska made no request for South Korean weapons supplies during her conversation with Yoon.
An American official said in November that the United States had agreed to buy 100,000 artillery rounds from South Korean manufacturers to provide to Ukraine, although South Korean officials have maintained that the munitions were meant to refill depleted U.S. stocks.in Hiroshima, Japan. Zelenskyy thanked South Korea for its humanitarian shipments of medicines, computers and generators and requested additional provisions of non-lethal items, Yoon’s office said at the time.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday.“Yoon’s visit to Ukraine reflects his globally-minded foreign policy and shows South Korean solidarity with NATO partners in defending the rules-based international order,” Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul, said.
Although Kyiv did not come under attack in the hours before the South Korean president’s arrival, Ukrainian forces on Friday and overnight downed 10 Russian drones across the country, the Ukrainian air force reported Saturday.at Ukraine’s south and east during the night, four of which were shot down. It did not immediately give details of any casualties or damage.
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