Zelensky in Germany for Ukraine Defense Meeting: We Need Weapons

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The day after the government reshuffle in Ukrainethe president Volodymyr Zelensky flew to Germany for the meeting of defense ministers of Kiev’s supporting countries at the US military base in Ramstein.

Ukraine “needs its international partners increase the supply of weapons and speed up the delivery of the promised air defense systems,” Zelensky said. In his speech, Zelensky thanked United States, Great Britain and Italy for the help offered so far.

The Ukrainian president continues to demand the use of Western armaments on Russian territory explaining that his request is linked to the possibility of preventing Russian air strikes in Ukraine.

Germany: no to Ukrainian attacks in Russia with Western weapons

Berlin has once again expressed its refusal to Zelensky’s request to allow the use of Western weapons against targets inside Russian territory. “Our attitude to this remains unchanged,” the German defense minister said Boris Pistorius on the sidelines of the meeting of the Contact Group for Ukraine in Ramstein.

Pistorius also congratulated Zelensky on the success of Ukrainian troops inoperation in the Kursk region of Russia to then formalize a further military contribution to Kiev of 150 million euros. “Since November 2022, we have trained more than 16,000 members of the Ukrainian armed forces in Germany,” Pistorius said, stressing that the new military contribution will consist of the supply of twelve Panzerhaubitze 2000 howitzer launchers.

Italy: the Our Samp/T helped Ukraine defend themselves

“The system Samp-T which we have delivered, and which I hope we will deliver in the shortest possible time, have enabled Ukraine to defend itself from Russian missile attacks – the Defense Minister said Guido Crosetto on the sidelines of the meeting -. What we all agree on is that we must make sure that this war ends and until that happens we must make sure that Ukrainian children, women, citizens do not die and the first way to do that is to stop the missiles that fall on civilian targets every day”.

Orbán from the Cernobbio Forum: Putin-Zelensky meeting possible and necessary

“A meeting between Putin and Zelensky It is certainly possible and necessary,” he said on Friday Viktor Orban from Cernobbio on the occasion of the Ambrosetti International Economic Forum, which runs until September 8. Among the topics touched upon by the Hungarian Prime Minister and current President of the Council of the European Union is the war between Ukraine and Russia: “There is a great deal of literature in Europe on how to create peace and this abundant literature concerns dialogue, which if it is not done at an appropriate time, escalation grows and everything becomes more difficult. Then there is the ceasefire, on which there is a misunderstanding in Western public opinion, according to which we should first make a peace plan, then open negotiations and then implement the ceasefire”, he added.

“But it is not like that, because looking at the most recent experiences of the trials and together with my personal experience my point is first the ceasefire, then the dialogue and finally the peace plan”, he stressed.

Zelensky: 6,000 Russian soldiers killed or wounded in Kursk region

They are about 6,000 Russian soldiers killed or wounded by Ukrainian troops during the ongoing operation in Kursk region: he said it Volodymyr Zelensky at the ongoing meeting of the Contact Group for the Defense of the Country at the US air base in Ramstein, Germany. The Ukrainian president recalled that in the incursion that began on August 6, Kiev captured 1,300 square kilometers of the Russian border region, where more than a hundred settlements are located.

Zelensky also announced that after the visit to Germany he will be in Italy, in Cernobbio, for the Ambrosetti International Economic Forumwhere he will meet, among others, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.