More funding for Ukraine’s reconstruction and the winning answer may lie in air defense (838 days of war)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to discuss reconstruction and armament at a Ukrainian reconstruction conference in Berlin, Germany. Air defense systems are the crucial key to protecting Ukrainian cities and, consequently, the answer to stopping the Russian invasion, argued the Ukrainian leader.
“As long as we do not deprive Russia of the possibility of terrorizing Ukraine, Putin will have no real interest in seeking a just peace,” statedZelensky.
Russian bombing of energy infrastructure has halved the country’s electricity production since winter. Furthermore, the Ukrainian head of state guarantees that 80% of thermal production and a third of hydroelectric production were destroyed by Russian attacks.
“Ukraine’s recovery mission is much more than simply rebuilding damaged infrastructure and protecting it from destruction. It’s about restoring the faith of all nations and ensuring that no ruins remain after all the attacks. This makes the very idea of aggression futile,” said the Ukrainian President in a post on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
The German Chancellor recalled that “what the Ukrainian army currently needs most is ammunition and weapons, particularly for air defense†. He also announced that Berlin will deliver a third Patriot and Iris-TSLM anti-aircraft defense system, tanks with Gepard anti-aircraft armament, missiles and artillery ammunition, “because the best reconstruction is the one that does not It has to be done at all”, explained Olaf Scholz.
The European Investment Bank also intends to deliver more than one billion euros during the International Conference for the Reconstruction of Ukraine, to support the economic recovery and reconstruction of Ukraine. Since the beginning of the war, the institution has allocated more than two billion euros to repair Ukrainian energy, transport and water supply infrastructures.
OTHER NEWS THAT MARKED THE DAY:
⇒Switzerland will host a peace summit in Ukraine this weekend. Around 90 countries and international organizations have already confirmed their presence, Russia is not on the guest list and China will not be present.
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⇒ Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said that Poland considered Kiev’s request to send military trainers, but came to the conclusion that “it would be safer and more efficient to form in Poland a Ukrainian unit made up of citizens those from that country subject to conscription”. While Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba recently stated that “if a man of legal age goes abroad, he shows that he does not care about the survival of his state.”
⇒ A Moscow court confirmed the admission to a psychiatric hospital of a student who was on trial for having spread “false information” about the Russian army. Maxim Lypkan, 18, is an activist against Russian aggression in Ukraine and, before his arrest, had planned a protest action to mark the first anniversary of Ukraine. Russian offensive in Ukraine.
