Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Saudi Arabia on Friday to attend the Arab Summit to be held in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.

Zelensky wrote on his Telegram account, "I will speak during the Arab League summit. I will meet with (Saudi) Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and hold other bilateral meetings."

It is his first visit to the region since the start of the Russian invasion of his country.

He said that his priorities during the visit would be "presenting our formula for peace, whose implementation must include the largest possible number of countries."
"Another priority is to protect the Muslims of Ukraine" in the Crimea region, which Russia annexed in 2014, he added.

"Crimea was the first to suffer from the Russian occupation, and most of those facing oppression in occupied Crimea are Muslims," he added.

Zelensky is expected to go to Japan for the Group of Seven meeting, his first visit to Asia since the invasion.

In recent days, Zelensky has toured European countries to request more supplies of weapons for a counter-attack in an effort to recapture territory captured by Russian forces.