“We stand with Ukraine. Firmly. And with the determination to accompany it to victory and the restoration of its legitimate rights,” he said. “We will continue the effort” in terms of deliveries of defense means, “he added.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for his part assured the Ukrainian president on Wednesday that the allies would support his country, in particular militarily, “as long as necessary” to repel the Russian invasion.
“We are engaged alongside Ukraine (…) and we have also supported Ukraine through financial aid, humanitarian aid and armament, heavy artillery, anti-aircraft defense and, more recently, the delivery of battle tanks, and we will continue to do so for as long as necessary”, assured the German Chancellor during a press conference in Paris alongside the French and Ukrainian Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Volodymyr Zelensky.