President travels to Berlin to meet German chancellor, who announces new military aid package including Leopard tanks
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said Ukraine can defeat Russia by the end of this year with western help, and thanked Germany during a visit to Berlin for its “big” military and economic support., the Ukrainian president said Germany was the second biggest contributor to Kyiv after the US. Scholz’s coalition government announced a new aid package to coincide with Zelenskiy’s visit, his first to Berlin since last year’s full-scale Russian invasion.
With Ukrainian troops advancing more than 10 miles this week around the city of Bakhmut, Zelenskiy said victory was entirely possible. “We can make the aggressor’s defeat irreversible already this year,” he said, laudingOn Sunday, Zelenskiy was on his way to Paris in the latest stop on a European tour. His warm comments in Berlin follow an often turbulent bilateral relationship with Germany. Ukrainian officials have previously accused Scholz of dithering over the supply of lethal weaponry.
At Sunday’s press conference, the German chancellor expressed complete solidarity with Kyiv, as previous disagreements were forgotten. He described Russia’s war in unambiguous terms as an “imperial attack, which threatens peace in the whole of Europe”. Arriving from a trip to Italy, where he met Pope Francis and the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, on Saturday, Zelenskiy said Germany’s biggest aid package yet was “saving Ukrainian lives”. He promised western weapons would not be used to strike inside Russia. “We don’t have time and energy for that. We are preparing an operation to liberate Ukraine’s illegally occupied territory,” he stressed.
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