{"id":7440,"date":"2025-06-11T12:02:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T12:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/serbias-vucic-romanias-dan-travel-to-ukraine-in-their-first-official-visits\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T12:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T12:02:53","slug":"serbias-vucic-romanias-dan-travel-to-ukraine-in-their-first-official-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/serbias-vucic-romanias-dan-travel-to-ukraine-in-their-first-official-visits\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbia&#8217;s Vucic, Romania&#8217;s Dan travel to Ukraine in their first official visits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2199570288.jpg\" alt=\"Serbia's Vucic, Romania's Dan travel to Ukraine in their first official visits\"><\/p>\n<p>Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will visit Ukraine on June 11 to take part in the Ukraine-Southeast Europe Summit in Odesa, Serbia&#8217;s Presidential Office announced.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predsednik.rs\/pres-centar\/najave-obavestenja\/najava-za-medije-za-1162025-poseta-samitu-ukrajina-jugoistocna-evropa\">one-day trip<\/a> will mark the Moscow-friendly <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/serbia\/\">Serbian<\/a> leader&#8217;s first official visit to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Top representatives of 12 southeastern European countries are expected to attend the meeting at the Ukrainian Black Sea coast city.<\/p>\n<p>Serbia has positioned itself as neutral in the Russia-Ukraine war, striving to <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/serbia-forms-new-government-expels-top-pro-russian-figure-amid-eu-pressure\/\">balance<\/a> its position as an EU candidate with its long-standing relationship with <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/russia\/\">Moscow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vucic, a populist politician who has held power in Serbia for 12 years, was one of the few European leaders who attended the Moscow Victory Day celebrations on May 9, drawing rebuke from the EU.<\/p>\n<p>The traditionally warm Russian-Serbian ties were <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/shooting-russia-in-the-back-serbian-companies-supplying-ammunition-to-ukraine-moscow-claims\/\">strained<\/a> recently after Russia&#8217;s intelligence accused Serbian defense companies of supplying arms to Ukraine via intermediaries. Vucic has <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/shooting-russia-in-the-back-serbian-companies-supplying-ammunition-to-ukraine-moscow-claims\/\">denied<\/a> the accusations.<\/p>\n<p>Nicusor Dan, the recently elected president of Romania, will also visit Odesa to take part in the summit, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ro\/ro\/media\/comunicate-de-presa\/participarea-presedintelui-romaniei-nicusor-dan-la-cel-de-al-patrulea-summit-ucraina-europa-de-sud-est\">Romanian Presidential Office<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>President Volodymyr Zelensky invited Dan to visit Ukraine shortly after the latter won the <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/nicusor-dan-defeats-far-right-simion-in-romanian-presidential-election\/\">May presidential election<\/a>. Dan ran on a centrist, pro-EU platform against far-right Eurosceptic George Simion.<\/p>\n<p>While Simion has vocally opposed military aid for Kyiv, Dan pledged to maintain Romania&#8217;s pro-Ukraine course.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-bookmark-card\"><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/shooting-russia-in-the-back-serbian-companies-supplying-ammunition-to-ukraine-moscow-claims\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-title\">\u2018We only work for Serbia\u2019 \u2014 Vucic denies Moscow\u2019s claims of Serbian companies supplying ammunition to Ukraine<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-description\">\u201cWe have formed a working group, together with Russian partners, to establish the facts&#8230; we work only for Serbia,\u201d Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-metadata\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"kg-bookmark-icon\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.kyivindependent.com\/content\/images\/size\/w256h256\/format\/png\/2023\/03\/K-new.svg\" alt=\"Serbia's Vucic, Romania's Dan travel to Ukraine in their first official visits\"><span class=\"kg-bookmark-author\">The Kyiv Independent<\/span><span class=\"kg-bookmark-publisher\">Martin Fornusek<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-455252552-1-.jpg\" alt=\"Serbia's Vucic, Romania's Dan travel to Ukraine in their first official visits\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8211; https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/ukraine\/rss\/<\/p>\n<p>This article appeared on the websitekyivindependent.com<br \/>\nThis article is taken based on Law no. 8\/1996 of Romania. News does not enjoy copyright, so they can be taken, this is our right to take news and information in its entirety and distribute them further. The content was made available to us through the rss mechanism<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/serbias-president-travels-to-ukraine-for-his-first-ever-visit\/\">Original Content<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will visit Ukraine on June 11 to take part in the Ukraine-Southeast Europe Summit in Odesa, Serbia&#8217;s Presidential Office announced. The one-day trip will mark the Moscow-friendly Serbian leader&#8217;s first official visit to Ukraine. 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