French President Emmanuel Macron has arrived in Kyiv, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said.

"Arrived! The third leg of President Emmanuel Macron's trip: Kyiv, Ukraine️," Colonna wrote on Twitter, showing a photo.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="fr" dir="ltr">Seconde étape du déplacement du Président <a href="https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EmmanuelMacron</a> : arrivée en <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Moldavie?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Moldavie</a>, pour porter un message d&#39;amitié, de soutien et de solidarité. <a href="https://t.co/84RpQ5vQjR">pic.twitter.com/84RpQ5vQjR</a></p>&mdash; Catherine Colonna (@MinColonna) <a href="https://twitter.com/MinColonna/status/1537024436993409026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Ukrzaliznytsia also confirmed that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi used the Ukrainian "diplomatic train," following reports of their planned visit to Kyiv.

The day before, the FT wrote that the leaders of France, Germany and Italy are planning a joint trip to Ukraine as early as Thursday to show support for the country resisting Russian invasion and to discuss its bid for EU membership.

The visit comes ahead of the European Commission's assessment of Ukraine's EU candidate status, a decision the bloc's leaders will discuss at a summit in Brussels next week.

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