Berlin, 6 September 2024 (dpa/MIA) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Frankfurt on Friday, amid reports that the Ukrainian leader will be in the region to attend a US-led meeting of the Ukraine Contact Group earlier in the day.

Scholz and Zelensky are scheduled to hold one-on-one talks in Germany's financial hub in the early afternoon, a government spokesman confirmed on Thursday evening.

Zelensky is likely to arrive in Frankfurt after attending a meeting of the Ukraine Contact Group at the nearby US base in Ramstein for talks on further Western support for Kiev in its war against Russia.

The Spiegel news magazine reported that Zelensky intends to call for fresh arms deliveries, including long-range missiles and anti-aircraft systems, at a meeting of the Ukraine Contact Group, an informal alliance of some 50 countries supporting Ukraine.

The meeting, convened by US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, is due to be held at the Ramstein Air Base in western Germany, some 100 kilometres south-west of Frankfurt.

The talks will be the 24th meeting of the group, which formed shortly after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

The German government has not confirmed that Zelensky will be attending.

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