Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Sweden on Saturday, his first visit to the country since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, while at home a missile strike in the centre of a northern city killed seven people and wounded dozens. The Swedish government said Zelenskyy will meet officials in Harpsund, about 120 km west of Stockholm. He will also meet Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia at a palace in the area.

Sweden abandoned its longstanding policy of military nonalignment to support Ukraine with weapons and other aid in the war against Russia. It also applied for NATO membership, but is still waiting to join the alliance. A Russian missile strike killed seven people and wounded 37 others on Saturday in the city centre of Chernihiv, the regional capital of the northern province of the same name, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.