French FM arrives in Kyiv 

French Foreign Affairs Minister Catherine Colonna has arrived in the city of Kyiv, Report informs.

During her visit, Catherine Colonna will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kouleba.

"The minister wants to show France's solidarity with the Ukrainian people and its full determination to reinforce its support, from a humanitarian and financial point of view, as well as in terms of supplying defence equipment," the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

Talks between Colonna and Zelenskyy are expected to focus on ways of relieving the Russian blockade on the export of cereal and oil-seed crops, a situation which is hampering the Ukrainian war effort and raising fears of food shortages.

"Just arrived in Ukraine to show France's support for the Ukrainian people," Colonna wrote on Twitter.