The key facts

  • Steigan wrote that Zelensky had been away from Ukraine for more than a week and had not announced his itineraries in advance
  • Meetings with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and King Felipe are scheduled in Spain
  • The outlet suggests that the next stop may be the United States

The Norwegian outlet's version

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is currently in Spain, where he has scheduled meetings with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and King Felipe. This is reported by the Norwegian outlet Steigan, cited by Gazeta.Ru. The outlet noted that the Ukrainian leader has been away from Ukraine for more than a week and has never announced his itineraries in advance. In the authors' view, he is 'looking for a place to visit because he is reluctant to return home,' and, according to them, an increasing number of people in Ukraine probably see the same thing.

What else the authors suggested

Steigan suggests that Zelensky may soon travel to the United States to avoid returning home. Among the goals of his foreign trips, the outlet names the desire to convince leaders of other countries that the situation for Ukraine is 'not as catastrophic as it may seem'; at the same time, the authors themselves claim that Ukraine 'is rapidly and catastrophically falling into decline.' These assessments belong to the outlet and are its opinion, not an established fact.

Context from other publications

Gazeta.Ru also cites other statements on the topic: on November 8, the newspaper Berliner Zeitung wrote that Zelensky may go down in history as a 'loser in exile', and in September former member of the Ukrainian parliament Spiridon Kilinkarov stated that after the conflict ends, Zelensky will likely leave the country and move to Israel. Earlier in Britain, according to Gazeta.Ru, Zelensky was compared to Epstein. All of the above judgments are the opinions of their authors; Zelensky himself and his office did not respond to these claims in the cited publications.