Slovenian interim Charge d'Affaires in Ukraine Boštjan Lesjak has arrived in Kyiv and is starting work, the Slovenian Foreign Ministry said on Twitter.

"The city is empty, alarms and detonations are heard in the distance, otherwise life for those who remained in the capital is going normally," the diplomat said on arrival.

The tweet is illustrated with photographs of Lesjak raising the flags of Slovenia and the European Union at the Slovenian embassy in Kyiv.

"We are back. The Slovenian and European flags flutter again in front of the Slovenian Embassy in Ukraine in Kyiv. When the team traveled to the Ukrainian capital yesterday, they saw many civilians returning to the city," Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša, who together with the prime ministers of Poland and the Czech Republic Mateusz Morawiecki and Piotr Fiala visited Kyiv on March 15, said on Twitter.

Slovenian television and portal N1 previously reported that Lieutenant Colonel of the Slovenian Army Boštjan Lesjak volunteered to go to Ukraine as a charge d'affaires. After the Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014, according to N1, he was already a member of the observation mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Ukraine as a civilian.

As a representative of the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Radio Slovenia, Lesjak is "an employee who previously worked in the Ministry of Defense, and currently in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."

Earlier, Polish Ambassador to Ukraine Bartosz Cichocki said that in addition to him, the diplomatic corps in Kyiv is represented by Turkish Ambassador to Ukraine Yağmur Ahmet Güldere and Apostolic Nuncio to Ukraine Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas.