Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was set to visit Austria on Monday in his first trip to the European Union member country since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Austria is famously neutral a stance it declared in 1955 after World War II and Vienna has come under heavy criticism since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war for maintaining ties with Moscow.

The Austrian government has condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but also stressed the need to maintain diplomatic relations with Moscow.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has begun his first visit to Austria since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Source: Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard, as reported by European Pravda;