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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Friday, his office in Kiev said. A visit to Paris to meet French President Emmanuel Macron is also planned, his office said in a post on Telegram on Thursday. Zelensky is expected to sign bilateral security agreements with Germany and France during his visits to Paris and Berlin. The agreements go back to the NATO summit in Lithuania in July, when leaders of the alliance agreed that individual NATO countries would pursue long-term security agreements with Ukraine. Ukraine, which is waging a bloody battl…