{"id":1456201,"date":"2026-10-22T13:04:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/?p=1456201"},"modified":"2026-10-22T13:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:04:38","slug":"finnish-prime-minister-orpo-arrives-in-kyiv-first-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/finnish-prime-minister-orpo-arrives-in-kyiv-first-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnish Prime Minister Orpo arrives in Kyiv: first details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo arrived in Kyiv on October 22 to reaffirm support for Ukraine. During his visit, he will meet with the Ukrainian leadership and participate in a Ukrainian-Finnish business forum with the participation of representatives of Finnish companies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/valtioneuvosto.fi\/en\/-\/prime-minister-petteri-orpo-in-ukraine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported<\/a> by the press service of the Finnish government.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the visit, Orpo also plans to express support for the reforms necessary for Ukraine&#8217;s accession to the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are important not only for the country&#8217;s European integration, but also for its citizens, businesses and economic recovery,&#8221; the Finnish government noted.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of more than ten Finnish companies will participate in the Ukrainian-Finnish business forum.<\/p>\n<p>Orpo last visited Ukraine in May 2025. Before that, he came to Kyiv in August 2023.<\/p>\n<h3>Aid to Ukraine from Finland<\/h3>\n<p>Since the start of Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion, Finland has provided Ukraine with almost \u20ac5 billion in aid, of which \u20ac3.6 billion is military support.<\/p>\n<p>The Finnish government emphasized that, given the size of its economy, the country is one of the most active supporters of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed with Petteri Orpo the protection of Ukrainian cities from Russian attacks. At that time, the head of state announced that new decisions on supporting Ukraine are expected in October.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier it was reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/finliandiia-zaklykaie-yes-zaboronyty-turystychni-vizy-dlia-rosiian-iaki-shche-obmezhennia-proponuiut\/\">Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen called on the European Union to completely ban the issuance of tourist Schengen visas to Russians until the end of the war against Ukraine.<\/a> Helsinki also proposes to introduce additional entry restrictions for people close to Vladimir Putin, athletes and former Russian military personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo arrived in Kyiv on October 22 to reaffirm support for Ukraine. During his visit, he will meet with the Ukrainian leadership and participate in a Ukrainian-Finnish business forum with the participation of representatives of Finnish companies. This was reported by the press service of the Finnish government. As part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":1456196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76875,76885,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1456201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news","category-policy","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1456202,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456201\/revisions\/1456202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1456196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}