The meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy comes weeks after Scholz spoke with Vladimir Putin
Good morning and welcome to our coverage of Russia’s war on Ukraine. The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, visited Ukraine for the first time in more than two and a half years on Monday. The diplomatic trip comes just weeks after he was criticised by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for having a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Their call came at a time of widespread speculation about what the new administration of president-elect Donald Trump will mean for Ukraine.
Scholz, who is under pressure from many voters to cut aid to Kyiv, said that, in his meeting with Zelenskyy, he will announce further military supplies this month totalling €650m . Zelenskyy is set to push Nato to invite Ukraine to join the military alliance at a meeting in Brussels this week. “Ukraine can rely on Germany – we say what we do and we do what we say,” the German chancellor said.
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