Mario the DragonOlaf Schulz and Emmanuel Macron in Kyiv For their first visit in Ukraine Since the beginning of the Russian invasion on February 24. The three European leaders met at the presidential palace with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “A busy day, important meetings. I am happy to meet President Macron, Chancellor Schultz, Prime Minister Draghi and President Iohannis in Kyiv. We appreciate your solidarity with our country and our people” said the Ukrainian president via his Telegram channel by posting photos. From meeting with European Union leaders.
Meanwhile, Zelensky accepted Germany’s invitation to participate in the upcoming G7, German Chancellor Schulz announced.
Press conference
“The most important message of our visit is that Italy wants Ukraine to join the European Union, wants it to have candidate status and will support that position in the next European Council. Zelensky knows this is a way to go, not just a step,” Draghi said at a press conference in Kyiv with The Ukrainian president and other European leaders.” “In Irbin I felt dread and hope, and hope for reconstruction and the future. We are here today for this, to help Ukraine rebuild its future.” The prime minister added, “We want peace but Ukraine must defend itself and Ukraine must choose the peace it wants and which it sees as acceptable to its people. Only in this way can there be lasting peace.” “We have two weeks to clear the ports. The harvest will arrive at the end of September and a series of increasingly urgent deadlines brings us relentlessly closer to tragedy. We need to create safe passages with the utmost urgency for the safe transport of grain and to avoid a catastrophe.” Draghi added that “the only way is to pass a United Nations resolution regulating navigation in the Black Sea, which Russia has rejected so far.” He added, “We have seen the atrocities committed by Russia in This war in Irvine, which we condemn without hesitation. We give our full support to the investigation of war crimes” committed by the Russians.
“We are here to give unconditional support to the Ukrainian people. A people who made an army to repel Russia’s aggression and live in freedom. Europe must be as brave as Zelensky,” Draghi added. “The European Union has demonstrated and today demonstrated extraordinary unity to support Ukraine in every way. Governments, parliaments and citizens have done so. I would like to recall the great solidarity shown by Italians and all Europeans to welcome those who fled the bombings.” “Today is a historic day for Europe,” Draghi added. “Today’s visit, along with those of many other European leaders who have come to Kyiv in recent weeks – he said – unequivocally confirms our support, that of Europe and our allies.”
“Dear friends, we appreciate your presence with us today, on the eve of important international events for all of us and for Europe. I am very grateful that the visit began in Irbin to see what the Russian invaders did. Our strength is unity ”: thus Zelensky At the press conference in Kyiv with EU leaders, speaking of Ukraine’s need for “heavy and modern weapons”: “We need help. Every weapon is a human life saved. Every extension increases the likelihood of Russians killing Ukrainians and destroying our cities” . “We must come to a common position on supporting our integration into the European Union. The status of the candidate for Ukraine can strengthen freedom in Europe and become the most important decision of the third decade of the twenty-first century. We understand that the path to the EU is not one step, but this path It must start. And the Ukrainians are ready to continue this path of becoming a candidate country.” Zelensky said: “I think Macron and his other colleagues Draghi, Schulze and Yohannes are here today to publicly support the candidate’s status – said Zelensky – and the chancellor emphasized that it all depends on a joint decision, so I hope the 27 will be able to . But here are 4 great European countries that are on our side. It is a historical result.”
“We are not at war with the Russian people en masse, we continued to talk with the Russian leader, but we always told Zelensky. The paths to peace will be decided only by Ukraine and its representatives. France and Germany will never negotiate with Russia behind Ukraine,” said French President Emmanuel Macron in Kyiv. In our conversation with Moscow “we bring our needs as European powers (and France as a member of the United Nations Council), but we never negotiate with it.” “Ukraine is part of Europe. This war will change the history of Europe. We stand by Ukraine to accompany it in this perspective. We assured Zelensky that tomorrow the committee will decide the framework and the next European Council will take some steps. Macron added. Our four countries will support Ukraine’s candidate status. In the next few days we will build a consensus 27.” Macron concluded his speech by saying in Ukrainian: “Ukrainian Slava.” Glory to Ukraine.
“We have come to send a message of European unity to all Ukrainian citizens. A message of support because the next few weeks will be very difficult,” the French president said as he got off the train that took him from Poland to Kyiv. In a place of war where massacres were committed.”
Air raid sirens sounded in the Ukrainian capital during the three leaders’ visit, while they were in a center hotel on a respite from the visit. Sirens have been sounding almost daily in Kyiv since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The alarm went off after about thirty minutes.
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“The impression is that these deadlines for ‘collecting and distributing wheat’ are approaching and that the tragedy of global famine, centered in the poorest countries, especially in Africa, is approaching,” Prime Minister Mario Draghi said in Kyiv. Italian press. “Today there were no requests from Zelensky for new weapons. He described the situation as it is, the situation that has become critical. Because Soviet weapons are running out of ammunition and new weapons need training. Various NATO countries provide this training. But it takes time. ” “We have reached 52% of gas storage levels, which is keeping us completely quiet right now and in the winter,” he added. The reasons for the interruption of gas supplies “which affect all European countries to some extent, we are told, are technical, connected with maintenance parts that do not arrive due to sanctions, but we, like Germany, believe that these are lies: in fact there is a political use of gas as well as of wheat.” Draghi said that “the conditions that the Ukrainians set today are their territorial integrity. It is a prelude to the start of peace negotiations from the Ukrainian side. At the moment there is no margin, but there is a situation that has changed a lot. Recent weeks also” to other countries that should help them achieve peace. There is a global diplomatic initiative that did not exist a month ago.”
Visit IRPIN
Macron, Draghi and Schulze also went in Irvine “Where did the murders take place,” the French president said. Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi stopped in front of bombed buildings in Irvine: “You have the world by your sideHe told the local authorities. “Draghi was greeted by the mayor of Irben Ole Bondar and the head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration Oleksiy Kuleba. Here the Russians destroyed” kindergartens and kindergartens. Everything will be rebuilt. They have already started. They are already in a very advanced stage of assessment,” Draghi told reporters on the sidelines of Irben’s visit. To those who asked him if it would require the Marshall Plan, Draghi replied: ‘We’ll talk about it later.’ Immediately afterwards, Schulz and Macron joined him and together they toured a block Of buildings engulfed by bombs and fire. I am grateful for your “testimony.” We need Ukraine to resist and win the war,” Macron said.
Chancellor Schultz pledged to help Ukraine “as long as necessary,” he said in an interview with Bild newspaper. During this visit to Kyiv – he said – “we want not only to show our solidarity, but also to ensure the continuation of the assistance that we are organizing: financial, humanitarian and also in terms of weapons.” “We will continue as long as necessary for Ukraine’s struggle for independence,” he added.
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The three leaders for the first time in the country since February 24
The Kremlin defines Western arms supplies as “useless” while the three European leaders Draghi, Macron and Schulze were in Kyiv to discuss with Ukrainian President Zelensky also the need for new weapons to support Ukraine against the Russian invasion.
On the Ukrainian train that took them to Kyiv, the three European leaders had a meeting that lasted about two hours: they met in a wagon immediately after the convoy left last night, in light of the meeting with Zelensky. The aim of the visit is to convey “a message of complete unity and cohesion to the countries of the European Union” in condemning Russia and aiding Ukraine.
European Parliament President Roberta Mitsola said in response to a question about Draghi’s mission to Kyiv and Macron and Schultz during a visit to a press conference from Prague. Mitsula explained, in Prague during the visit of the Czech presidency to the European Union.
It’s important of political and symbolic value: Leaders of all three major EU countries, come face to face with Volodymyr Zelensky. To demonstrate European interdependence, perhaps to indicate a line that does not necessarily coincide with the line of the Americans. On the eve of the mission, it was the head of the Elysee who most clearly repudiated Washington’s intransigence towards the Kremlin: “The Ukrainian president and his officials will have to negotiate with Russia – Romania assured – and we will do everything to stop the Russian forces and help the Ukrainians and their army.” The three leaders’ trip to Ukraine is at a very complicated stage, because on the ground the Russian army continues to make gains by ramping up its firepower on the Donbass, while the Ukrainians defend themselves aggressively but increasingly exhausted and expect more support. European allies.
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