New Lithuanian PM arrives in Kyiv on first visit
Lithuania's new Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė has arrived in Kyiv on a visit, and this is her first foreign trip in office and her first visit to Ukraine in this role.
Ruginienė shared a photo taken at the wall of remembrance on the walls of St Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery.
"There's nowhere I'd rather be for my first visit than in free and unbreakable Ukraine," she said on X.
There’s nowhere I’d rather be for my first visit than in free & unbreakable Ukraine.
At Kyiv’s Wall of Remembrance, with @Svyrydenko_Y I honoured Ukrainians who fell defending their country, our joint security and shared ideals. pic.twitter.com/sSUuDujY1U– Inga Ruginienė (@IRuginiene) October 6, 2025
She noted that, together with Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko, she honoured the memory of those who had been killed.
Other details of the visit have not yet been disclosed.
The formation of the new Lithuanian government had been marked by scandals involving representatives of the far-right Dawn of Nemunas party. Initially, the party threatened to leave the coalition after President Gitanas Nausėda refused to approve some of its ministerial nominees.
Later, following a wave of criticism, the party's appointed minister of culture – who, among other issues, hesitated when asked whose Crimea it was – was forced to resign.