{"id":168387,"date":"2025-12-01T00:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/168387\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T00:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T00:20:11","slug":"ukraines-zelenskiy-to-visit-ireland-amid-ongoing-efforts-to-end-war-with-russia-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/168387\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s Zelenskiy to visit Ireland amid ongoing efforts to end war with Russia \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian<\/a> president Volodymyr Zelenskiy<\/a> will be in Dublin<\/a> on Tuesday amid ongoing diplomatic efforts to end the war that has been raging since the Russian<\/a> invasion of his country almost four years ago.<\/p>\n

Mr Zelenskiy is due to meet Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin<\/a> as well as pay a courtesy call to President Catherine Connolly<\/a> during series of engagements on Tuesday, including the inauguration of a new Ireland-Ukraine Economic forum to explore business links.<\/p>\n

While plans are yet to be finalised, there is also a possibility that Mr Zelenskiy will deliver an address to the Houses of the Oireachtas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Republic has offered political and non-lethal military support to Ukraine since the Russian invasion in 2022.<\/p>\n

More than 120,000 Ukrainian nationals fleeing the war have been granted temporary refugee status here.<\/p>\n

Mr Martin said Mr Zelenskiy\u2019s visit \u201ccomes at a critical time for Ukraine and Europe, with efforts to bring just and lasting peace to Ukraine ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI look forward to discussing with President Zelenskiy the ways in which Ireland can support these efforts and how we can ensure that Ukraine comes to the negotiating table in as strong a position as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Sunday, a Ukrainian delegation met officials from US president Donald Trump\u2019s administration as diplomatic efforts continue to end the war.<\/p>\n

The negotiations come at a sensitive moment for Ukraine as it continues to push back against Russian forces while dealing with a domestic corruption controversy.<\/p>\n

Diplomats have been focused on revisions to a proposed 28-point plan developed in negotiations between Washington and Moscow. That plan has been criticised as being too weighted toward Russian demands. <\/p>\n

As the meeting began on Sunday, US secretary of state Marco Rubio made remarks apparently aimed at reassuring Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe end goal, obviously, is not just the end of the war,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it\u2019s also about securing an end to the war that leaves Ukraine sovereign and independent and with an opportunity at real prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Trump has flagged the possibility that he would send special envoy Steve Witkoff to Moscow this week to meet Russian president Valdimir Putin about the plan.<\/p>\n

French president Emmanuel Macron is due to host Mr Zelenskiy for talks in Paris on Monday.<\/p>\n

While Mr Zelenskiy has made stop-offs at Shannon Airport, his trip to Dublin along with his wife Olena Zelenska, will be the first official visit to Ireland by a president and first lady of Ukraine. The Taoiseach said it is \u201can honour\u201d to welcome them.<\/p>\n

He said the people of Ukraine \u201ccontinue to endure the nightly onslaught of Russian missiles and drones on their cities\u201d and their defence forces \u201ccontinue to defend their homeland with remarkable tenacity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Martin said he looks forward to \u201creiterating Ireland\u2019s unswerving commitment to standing with the people of Ukraine for as long as it takes\u201d; discussing how Ireland can assist in accelerating Ukraine\u2019s journey towards EU membership; and \u201chow we can work together to achieve a just and lasting peace for the people of Ukraine\u201d. \u2013 Additional reporting: AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy will be in Dublin on Tuesday amid ongoing diplomatic efforts to end the war…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3656,969,615,9146,61,60,1843,43,12636,3589,9688,5936,58419],"class_list":["post-168387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-catherine-connolly","tag-donald-trump","tag-dublin","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news","tag-oireachtas","tag-russia","tag-ukraine-crisis","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskiy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}