Boris Johnson in Kyiv for talks with President Zelensky

Boris Johnson has met with Volodymyr Zelensky in person after making an unannounced visit to Ukraine’s capital Kyiv.

An image shared by the Ukrainian embassy to the UK shows the two leaders sat together at a table.

The surprise meeting was announced by Ukrainian officials and has since been confirmed by Downing Street.

Volodymyr Omelyan, a Ukranian politician, tweeted: ‘Boris Johnson in Kyiv,’ alongside a heart emoji.

The two leaders are discussing how to defend Ukraine against the Russian invasion, Zelensky’s spokesman Andij Sybiha said on Facebook.

It comes after Mr Johnson pledged to send £100m worth of high grade military weapons to Ukraine.

Ukraine is preparing for a bloody battle in the east after Putin’s forces withdrew from the Kyiv region – leaving being evidence of mass killings and atrocities on a scale not seen since World War Two.

As the west imposed more sanctions over the massacre, rape and torture of civilians in Bucha, Russia launched a rocket attack on civilians fleeing Kramatorsk rail station in Donetsk – killing 50 people.

Mr Johnson said the strike on the transport hub was ‘unconscionable’ and showed the ‘depths to which Putin’s once-vaunted army had sunk’.

At a joint press conference in Downing Street with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, he said the Europe we knew six weeks ago ‘no longer exists’.

However he said Putin had ‘succeeded in uniting Europe and the whole transatlantic alliance in support of Ukraine and in solidarity with each other’

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