An urgent message conveyed by Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, during the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin on June 11. 🇺🇦💙💛🇩🇪
#Repost @kyivindependent_official with @use.repost . . . The time has come for Kyiv’s partners to provide all the weapons necessary to push Russia out of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said during the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin on June 11.
“If you’re asking me whether the time has come for the partners to give us all the arms needed to throw Russia out, then yes, the time has come,” Zelensky said in a response to a journalist’s question.
The world’s government and business leaders, as well as representatives of international organizations and civil society, have gathered in the German capital for a two-day Ukraine Recovery Conference.
Speaking at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz after bilateral talks, Zelensky thanked Berlin for all the support it has provided to Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression.
Germany is the second-largest military donor to Ukraine after the U.S. and has launched an allied initiative to supply Kyiv with the much-needed anti-aircraft systems.
Responding to a journalist’s question, Scholz said that Berlin currently has no plans to back the proposal by French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to send military instructors to Ukraine.
Scholz added that Germany continues to train Ukrainian soldiers on German territory, and “nothing changes there.”
Zelensky also touched upon the subject of Kyiv’s prospective membership in the EU, saying that the country fulfilled all the necessary steps to start accession talks.
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