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Germany recently pledged a third U.S.-made Patriot battery for Ukraine, but Kyiv officials say they are still facing an alarming shortfall of air defenses against the Russian onslaught. The Kremlin's forces have used their advantage in the skies to debilitate Ukraine's power grid, hoping to sap Ukrainian morale and disrupt its defense industry.
Trudeau was the first non-European leader to visit Ukraine during the invasion. [8] June 10, 2023 [9] February 24, 2024 [6] February 24, 2025 Trudeau opened a summit on peace and security, and pledged military and monetary aid to Ukraine. [10] Croatia Andrej Plenković: May 8, 2022 [11] March 31, 2023 [12] Czech Republic Petr Fiala: March 15 ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock in Kyiv on 17 January 2022. In an interview with the French newspaper Libération in April 2021, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that provocations by Russia with the relocation of troops to the border with Ukraine and the aggravation of the situation in the east are the most serious since ...
Ukrainian officials and media portrayed Russia's attack as the beginning of a new world war, comparable to Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939. Ukrainian propaganda also compares Russian President Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler, calling him a "Putler," and Russian troops to the Nazis, calling them a mixture of Russians and fascists ...
This latest crisis follows years of aggression from Moscow toward Kyiv. In early 2014, Russian special forces stealthily invaded Ukraine’s strategically positioned Crimean Peninsula.
Ukrainian officials have published photos and videos of killed and captured Russian soldiers. [4] Some experts have argued that Article 13 of the Third Geneva Convention prohibits videos of captured soldiers. [5] On 2 April, Zelenskyy warned Ukrainian residents that Russian forces retreating from around Kyiv were "mining the whole territory.
In 1991, Germany opposed Ukrainian independence and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, according to archived German Foreign Ministry files released in 2022. [7] In November 1991, facing the imminent dissolution of the Soviet Union, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl offered Russia to "exert influence on the Ukrainian leadership" for it to join a proposed confederation with Russia. [7]
IN FOCUS: A family of refugees now living in the city of Kharkiv recount to Tom Watling the horrifying story of their last-minute evacuation as Russian soldiers approached