“I would like to see this no later than next year, 2025…”: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s announcement this Friday
The Ukrainian president said this Friday that he was aiming for an end to the war in 2025, completing a European tour in Berlin.
Published on 10/11/2024 at 5:05 p.m.
Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that he was aiming for an end to the war in 2025, completing a European tour in Berlin, where he obtained a promise that German aid would not weaken at a time when kyiv is struggling on the eastern front against Russian troops. “Ukraine wants a rapid end to the war (…) I would like to see this no later than next year, 2025,” he said alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in front of the press.
This European tour aimed to present its “victory plan” to force Russia to end the war launched in February 2022 by the Kremlin, and demand more weapons to repel Russian troops from Ukrainian territory.
“Ukraine wants a quick end to the war, I would like to see this in 2025”
The German chancellor, whose government has planned, to the great dismay of kyiv, to halve in 2025, to 4 billion euros, the sum allocated to bilateral military aid intended for Ukraine, wanted to be reassuring. “Our support for Ukraine will not waver,” he said. The German and European commitment to Ukraine is also a “clear message to Putin: playing for time will not work”.
The search for “a just and lasting peace for Ukraine remains the guideline of our common action”, the Chancellor further underlined, warning however that the allies would “not accept a peace dictated by Russia”.
During his tête-à-tête with Olaf Scholz, the Ukrainian leader was to renew his call on Germany to deliver more weapons, in particular long-range missiles capable of hitting Russian territory in depth.
Despite pressure, including within his coalition with the Greens and the Liberals, the social democrat Olaf Scholz has so far categorically refused to supply Taurus, sophisticated missiles with a range of around 500 kilometers, for fear of an escalation between NATO and the Kremlin, which regularly brandishes the nuclear threat.
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Mr Zelensky’s tour came as Russian forces continue to advance in eastern Ukraine and as bombing attacks on critical infrastructure increase ahead of winter.
Mr Scholz announced short-term aid of 170 million euros to help repair damaged infrastructure.
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