Berlin, Nov. 3 -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Berlin on Tuesday for talks with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, in a show of European support for Kyiv ahead of a fresh round of US-brokered negotiations between Russia and Ukraine next week.
Merz announced the visit during a speech to business leaders in Berlin, saying he expected to meet Zelenskyy shortly after midday. The trip had been kept under wraps for security reasons.
"He'll be here with me just after midday, and things will be a bit different then," Merz said, in an apparent reference to Zelenskyy's contentious meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House in February 2025.
Merz said that Europe is required to strengthen its own defence capabili...