The presidents of Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have arrived in Kiev. Polish President Andrzej Duda’s office said they would meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for consultations. The talks would focus on how to support the civilians and military in Ukraine, it said. It will also investigate possible war crimes committed by Russian troops.
Duda is accompanied by Estonian President Alar Karis, Egils Levits of Latvia and Lithuanian Head of State Gitanas Nauseda. “Our countries are showing their support for Ukraine and President Zelenskyy in this way,” Dudas said on Twitter. German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier had also wanted to travel, but Ukraine refused his visit. The German government reacted with surprise to the cancellation, Steinmeier was disappointed.
AAnnouncing Steinmeier’s Visit to Kiev “Success for Putin”
Greens’ foreign policy spokesman in the Bundestag, Jürgen Trittin, called on Ukraine on Wednesday to withdraw the cancellation of Steinmeier’s visit to Kiev. “It doesn’t work that way,” says Trittin of the editorial network Germany (RND). Declaring the German head of state, who has also just been re-elected, an unwanted person is a great propaganda success for Vladimir Putin. If you want to divide the Europeans, you have to do it like the Ukrainian president. “We expect Ukraine to take that back.”
Former world boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko, meanwhile, is counting on a later trip from the German president to the country. “I hope that the Federal President’s visit to Kiev has only been postponed and can be caught up in the coming weeks,” the brother of Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko told Bild newspaper Tuesday evening. “I think it is urgent that we as Ukraine continue to build bridges to Germany,” Klitschko emphasized.
Klitschko defends Steinmeier: ‘Apologies for mistakes’
“Germany is the main partner in providing financial aid to Ukraine, providing humanitarian aid, aiding refugees en masse and sending more and more weapons, even though we need more of them,” he added. Wladimir Klitschko said Steinmeier has made “a lot of mistakes” in the past that caused “enormous damage” to Ukraine. Steinmeier admitted this and apologized.
Numerous European Union heads of state and government recently traveled to Kiev, including Chancellor Karl Nehammer (ÖVP) last weekend. The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, also recently visited Ukraine.
Source: Krone
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