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As part of his tour to rally support for Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be in Brussels for the day, where he will address reporters before visiting a pilot training facility in the Belgian capital.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit Belgium on Tuesday to sign a string of security agreements with Western allies, the Belgian prime minister’s office said earlier this week.
The Ukrainian leader will hold a press conference with Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo after the two leaders sign a bilateral security deal.
Zelenskyy will then visit a military airbase in the Belgian capital and meet instructors helping to train Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16 jets.
Belgium has pledged to supply fighter aircraft to Kyiv as part of a broader initiative by European allies and hopes to begin deliveries this year.
Zelenskyy's Belgium visit comes a day after he travelled to Spain and successfully secured a Spanish pledge of additional air defence missiles. This will help fend off roughly 3,000 bombs Russia fires at the country every month.
Despite the win, Zelenskyy said he still needs US-made Patriot air defences to counter Kremlin attacks on the heavily-hit power grid and civilian areas.
“If we had these modern Patriot systems, (Russian) airplanes wouldn’t be able to fly close enough to drop the bombs on the civilian population and the military,” Zelenskyy said at a news conference in the Spanish capital.
