German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said this Sunday that he is negotiating with Kyiv to pay a visit to Ukraine in the coming months, dpa and Agerpres reported.

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Lindner of the Free Democratic Party told ARD that he would travel to Ukraine “at the end of summer or autumn” and that the plan for his visit had been agreed with his Ukrainian counterpart Serhiy Marchenko.

In May, Lindner invited Marchenko to visit Berlin if he considered such a visit useful.

Also in May, German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock became the first minister of the German government to visit Kyiv since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, this visit was followed by several other ministers.

Federal Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz visited Ukraine in June.