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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky headed to Buenos Aires earlier today (December 10) to witness the swearing-in of Argentina\u2019s new president, Javier Milei.<\/p>\n
It is the Ukrainian leader\u2019s first trip to Latin America as Kyiv continues to court support among developing nations for its 21-month-old fight against Russia\u2019s invading forces.<\/p>\n
A political outsider who has railed against what he calls entrenched official corruption in Argentina and promised to uproot the political establishment, Mr Milei ran on a pro-Western foreign policy platform, repeatedly expressing distrust of Moscow and Beijing.<\/p>\n
On Sunday morning, Mr Milei was sworn in inside the National Congress building, and outgoing President Alberto Fernandez placed the presidential sash upon him. Some of the assembled politicians chanted \u201cLiberty!\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mr Zelensky phoned Mr Milei shortly after the Argentinian\u2019s electoral victory, thanking him for his \u201cclear support for Ukraine\u201d which he described in social media posts as \u201cwell-noticed and appreciated by Ukrainians\u201d.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: <\/strong> Olena Zelenska tells Kyiv Mayor to just ‘do his job’ after Zelensky criticism<\/strong><\/p>\n In its readout of the call published shortly afterwards, Mr Milei\u2019s office said he had offered to host a summit between Ukraine and Latin American states, a potential boon to Kyiv\u2019s months-long effort to strengthen its relationships with countries of the global south.<\/p>\n Mr Zelensky and other senior Ukrainian officials have repeatedly presented Ukraine\u2019s war against Russia as resistance against colonial aggression, hoping to win support from Asian, African and Latin American states that in the past struggled to free themselves from foreign domination, sometimes turning to Moscow for support against Western powers.<\/p>\n According to Mr Zelensky\u2019s official website, he broke his journey to Argentina to meet the prime minister of the West African country of Cape Verde, Ulisses Correia e Silva, thanking him for his support for Kyiv\u2019s diplomatic initiatives and discussing efforts to boost Ukrainian grain exports to Africa.<\/p>\n Don’t miss… <\/strong> Mr Zelensky expressed his appreciation for Cape Verde\u2019s backing of UN resolutions supporting Ukraine\u2019s territorial integrity and calling for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukrainian territory before peace talks can begin.<\/p>\n The African country previously supported UN documents condemning Russia\u2019s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.<\/p>\n According to Mr Zelensky\u2019s website, he and Mr Correia e Silva also discussed Kyiv\u2019s efforts to expand a corridor for grain exports in the Black Sea that has seen over 7 million metric tons of Ukrainian produce shipped out since its inception, months after Moscow pulled out of a UN-brokered deal to facilitate shipments of Ukrainian and Russian food and fertiliser to countries in need.<\/p>\n In other developments, Russian shelling over the past 24 hours killed two elderly women and wounded two more civilians in Ukraine\u2019s north-eastern Kharkiv region, local governor Oleh Syniehubov reported on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/78\/590x\/secondary\/zelesnky-milei-5108205.jpg?r=1702223584465\")
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