Ukraine’s Western partners expect a long war but are preparing to continue their support. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz believes that the war in Ukraine can last a very long time. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has a similar opinion. He stated that he expects the Armed Forces of U... #EdgarsRinkevics #JensStoltenberg #OlafScholz #WarinUkraine
Germany is preparing a €1.4B winter military aid package for Ukraine and is opening a joint defense enterprise with Ukraine. According to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the main task of the new aid package is to create a protective shield against Russia’s plans to continue attacking critical infrastructure. The packag... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DenysShmyhal #GermanyMilitaryAid #OlafScholz #Rheinmetall
Germany wants to obtain permanent financial support for Ukraine from the EU. Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised to work on ensuring that by the end of the year, the EU adopts concrete decisions to ensure stable support for Ukraine in the coming years, referring to the Dec... #DenysShmyhal #EUfinancialAid #EUsupportforUkraine #financialaidforUkraine #OlafScholz
Germany has postponed delivery of long-range missiles to Ukraine due to fear of escalation. Some German officials fear that this could bring Berlin closer to a direct confrontation with Russia, writes the WSJ. “German officials said Germany’s coalition government had approved the... #GermanyWeapons #LongRangeMissiles #OlafScholz #TaurusMissile #WarinUkraine
Zelenskyy met with world leaders in Vilnius: Australia is providing 30 Bushmasters, Germany and the Netherlands are strengthening Ukraine’s air defense, and Canada offers armored vehicles. According to the Ukrainian president, Australia is giving Ukraine 30 Bushmaster armored personnel carriers as part of a new aid package. The total number of Bushmasters provided to Ukraine now reaches... #JustinTrudeau #MarkRutte #MilitaryAidforUkraine #NATOsummitVilnius #OlafScholz #RishiSunak #Zelenskyy
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Tuesday that Ukrainian forces have proceeded in a very precise and well-organized way so far in the war. Speaking at a joint press conference with Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, Scholz said he “never expected that everything would change from one day to the next” but added the Ukrain... #MarcelCiolacu #OlafScholz #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
Germany and Poland are on the verge of creating a hub to repair German equipment for Ukraine. The countries are getting closer to concluding a corresponding agreement, informed the German ambassador in Warsaw, Thomas Bagger. He said the negotiations on this topic will be completed before the N... #MilitaryAidforUkraine #MilitaryEquipmentRepair #OlafScholz #Rheinmetall #ThomasBagger
Duda calls for Ukraine’s NATO membership, while Scholz and Macron only discuss security guarantees. “Ukraine is waiting for a clear signal, a clear prospect of membership,” Polish President Andrzej Duda said at a meeting in Paris. He hopes the July NATO summit in Vilnius will bring Ukrai... #AndrzejDuda #EmmanuelMacron #NatoMembership #OlafScholz #SecurityGuarantees #UkraineNATO
Germany has provided an aerial surveillance system and reconnaissance drones and will send over 100 Leopard 1A5s. Germany provided a new military aid package, including the TRML-4D aerial surveillance radar system and 54 VECTOR reconnaissance drones, two BIBER armored bridge layers, three mobile, protected demini... #GermanyMilitaryAid #LeopardBattleTanks #OlafScholz #OleksiyMakeev
The European share of Ukraine’s trade is gradually increasing, and Scholz says that EU membership is possible only after the war. Ukraine is geographically located in the eurozone, so it is profitable, and the economy will continue to migrate there, noted First Deputy Head of the NBU Kateryna Rozhkova. “Our economy, if you... #AssociationwithEU #KaterynaRozhkova #OlafScholz #UkraineEUtrade #UkraineTrade
Scholz feels that Ukraine will not join NATO in the foreseeable future but will receive Western weapons after the war. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke about the prospects of Ukraine’s membership in NATO in an interview with Welt. “In Bucharest in 2008, NATO adopted decisions that formulated a long-term... #OlafScholz #SecurityGuarantees #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
Great Britain and the Netherlands will work on creating an aviation coalition for Ukraine: Belgium and Poland are ready to join, and Germany will abstain. Prime Minister of Great Britain Rishi Sunak and Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte agreed on this course of action at the summit of the Council of Europe in Iceland. It also became known tha... #DmytroKuleba #F16 #F16training #FighterJetsToUkraine #MarkRutte #OlafScholz #RishiSunak
Zelenskyy has met with the German president and chancellor and seeks to form an air coalition. During a meeting with his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President Zelenskyy noted that Ukraine is counting on Germany’s assistance in supporting Ukraine’s application to join NATO... #FighterJetsToUkraine #FrankWalterSteinmeier #OlafScholz #SupportUkraine #UkraineNATO #Zelenskyy
Ursula von der Leyen met with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv to discuss new sanctions against the Russian Federation. According to the head of the European Commission, the EU will limit technology export to Russia through other countries. The European Commission also does not rule out sanctions against third countrie... #circumventionOfSanctions #ExportToRussia #OlafScholz #SanctionsAgainstRussia #UrsulavonderLeyen #Zelenskyy
Scholz is preparing the world community for a long recovery after the end of the war. According to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, there will be no quick end to the war that the Russian Federation started against Ukraine. Therefore, he urged the international community to be prepared be... #OlafScholz #UkraineRecovery #WarinUkraine
President Zelenskyy met with Macron and Scholz, trying to convince them to deliver missiles and planes. As Bild writes, the Ukrainian president convinced his French colleague and the German chancellor to provide Ukraine with combat aircraft and long-range missiles. “The sooner we get heavy long-range we... #EmmanuelMacron #OlafScholz #Zelenskyy
Scholz did not receive South American countries’ support for Ukraine. During his tour of South America, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wanted to involve Argentina, Brazil, and Chile in assisting Ukraine in the fight against the Russian Federation’s invasion. Unfortunatel... #OlafScholz #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine
Germany officially approves the provision of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and will allow Ukraine’s allies to do the same. Germany will transfer 14 modern Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and will enable its partners to do the same under the re-export procedure, the country’s government said in a statement. These vehicles... #LeopardBattleTanks #OlafScholz #WeaponsforUkraine
Germany has decided to deliver Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. Germany is set to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, reported the newspaper Der Spiegel. According to the exclusive Der Spiegel report, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has decided to deliver battle tanks ... #LeopardBattleTanks #OlafScholz #tanksforUkraine
Germany claims Leopard delivery does not depend on the US supplying the Abrams. Berlin did not put forward a condition requiring the US to transfer its Abrams tanks to Ukraine in order for the approval of the supply of German Leopard tanks to Kyiv, said the representative of the ... #LeopardBattleTanks #OlafScholz #TanksAbrams #tanksforUkraine
Poland and Lithuania hope Chancellor Scholz will allow tanks to be sent to Ukraine. The heads of the governments in Poland and Lithuania said they are optimistic that Germany will authorize the export of Leopard tanks to Ukraine, as business tycoons and policymakers came together for... #AndrzejDuda #LeopardBattleTanks #OlafScholz #tanksforUkraine
Germany focuses on the US on the issue of supplying heavy weapons to Ukraine. As Politico writes, according to two German officials, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s position on providing arms to Ukraine depends significantly on US President Joe Biden. At the same time, the UK... #BattleTanks #HeavyWeapons #OlafScholz #WeaponsforUkraine
The German Social Democrats party supports heavy weapon supplies for Ukraine. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition government will continue to send heavy weaponry to Ukraine to help it in its fight against Russia’s invasion. Lars Klingbeil, the co-leader of Scholz’s rulin... #GermanyMilitaryAid #LeopardBattleTanks #Marder #OlafScholz
The US and Germany will send armored vehicles to Ukraine, a significant upgrade in firepower urgently sought by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the fight against Russia’s invasion, according to people familiar with the matter, reported Bloomberg. In an anno... #Bradley #JoeBiden #Marder #MilitaryAidforUkraine #OlafScholz
Olaf Scholz is under pressure again for refusing tank delivery to Ukraine. German chancellor Olaf Scholz came under renewed pressure in Germany to supply Ukraine with additional heavy weapons after France pledged to give armored fighting vehicles. The German chancellor has ... #GermanyMilitaryAid #MarcusFaber #Marder #OlafScholz
Germany is ready to transfer Russian assets to Ukraine, and the US and the EU are putting pressure on Switzerland. The German authorities are ready to send frozen Russian assets to restore Ukraine if there is a legal basis for this and the allies act similarly. As Bloomberg writes, Olaf Scholz’s government g... #OlafScholz #RussianAssetsConfiscation #UkraineRecovery
Scholz and von der Leyen propose the creation of a new Marshall Plan for Ukraine. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have proposed launching a new Marshall Plan for the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine, reported Frankfurter Allgem... #OlafScholz #ReconstructionofUkraine #UrsulavonderLeyen
Olaf Scholz says you are investing in Ukraine, a future EU member. “Ukraine is part of the European family,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said at the German-Ukrainian Business Forum in Berlin. “We want Ukraine to become part of the European Union.” Therefore, the c... #InvestmentsinUkraine #OlafScholz #ReconstructionofUkraine #UKrainemembershipinEU
Russia’s “scorched earth tactics” won’t help Putin win the war, reported CNN. Scholz told members of the German Parliament that Russian President Vladimir Putin is using energy and hunger as weapons, adding that such scorched earth tactics will not help tip the sc... #OlafScholz #RussianGas #WarinUkraine
Scholz confirms the failure of Putin’s gas blackmail. Germany has rid itself of dependence on Russian energy sources, and Vladimir Putin’s bet on gas blackmail did not work, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said during a speech in the Bundestag. Accor... #OlafScholz #RussianGasBlackmail #RUssianGasforGermany
The US and Germany remain indecisive about whether to send battle tanks to Ukraine. Ukraine’s allies have recently held talks at various levels regarding the possibility of sending Abrams and Leopard NATO-standard battle tanks to Ukraine, reported Bloomberg. A US State Department s... #BattleTanks #NATO-standardTanks #OlafScholz #tanksforUkraine
Olaf Scholz expressed annoyance at calls to supply Ukraine with its main battle tanks. According to the chancellor, the debate about tanks “completely ignores the fact that through our circular exchange, we have also allowed more than 100 battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicl... #OlafScholz #tanksforUkraine
Germany has come to an agreement with Slovenia on the transfer of 28 M-55S tanks to Ukraine. During a telephone call, Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz agreed on a circular exchange scheme, as a result of which Ukraine will receive 28 modernized M-55S tan... #M-55S #OlafScholz #RobertGolob #tanksforUkraine
Germany is preparing to stop the Russian Federation’s oil supply. Russia can stop supplying oil to two German plants through the Druzhba pipeline, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in an interview with the Deutschlandfunk. He recalled that the country has already f... #EnergyCrisis #OlafScholz #RussianOilExport
The German chancellor pledges continued military support for Ukraine. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stressed to his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a phone call Wednesday that Berlin would continue to support Kyiv not only militarily but also politically, ... #GermanySupportsUkraine #OlafScholz #Zelenskyy
Shmyhal and Scholz have discussed the new EU macro-finance program and the supply of weapons. Ukraine is counting on support from partner countries in 2023, particularly a new macro-finance program with the EU for 2023 and a new program with the IMF, the Government’s press service report... #DenysShmyhal #macrofinanceprogram #OlafScholz
Olaf Scholz and Denys Shmyhal discuss reconstruction during the Berlin meeting. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal met German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday in Berlin, where the two discussed the war in Ukraine, according to the German government. Scholz expressed his resp... #DenysShmyhal #OlafScholz
Scholz supports EU membership for Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for the expansion of the European Union to include Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia in the bloc, reported Spiegel. In a speech entitled “Europe is our future:,... #EUmembership #OlafScholz
Ukraine will receive a new €500M military aid package from Germany. The German government has decided to provide Ukraine with a new military aid package totaling €500 million, Bloomberg reported. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz completed the coordination of the planned ... #GermanyMilitaryAid #OlafScholz
Germany plans to resume work on the MidCat gas pipeline from Spain to Central Europe. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to resume construction of the MidCat gas pipeline project, connecting the Iberian Peninsula with central Europe, writes Bild. The project was abandoned three years ... #Gaspipeline #MidCat #OlafScholz
Germany is ready to provide security guarantees to Ukraine, but not those of NATO. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that the federal government could not specify the security guarantees it is ready to provide to Ukraine yet, and they must be discussed with their allies in the Nort... #GuaranteesGermany #OlafScholz #SecurityGuarantees #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine
Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that only Ukraine should decide on its future and opposed any agreement not endorsed by Kyiv. “Ukraine – and only Ukraine – decides what suits them... #GermanyandUkraine #OlafScholz #WarinUkraine
The German Chancellor called for simplification of the EU accession procedure. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for EU reforms to facilitate the admission of new members. Scholz said that EU candidates and the EU itself should prepare for EU enlargement. “To do th... #eu #EUmembership #OlafScholz
Zelenskyy meets with the leaders of France, Romania, Germany, and Italy. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis steps to stren... #EmmanuelMacron #MarioDraghi #OlafScholz #Zelenskyy
The US will send HIMARS artillery systems, and Germany will send IRIS-T air defense systems to Ukraine. Germany will send its most modern air defense system, the IRIS-T, to Ukraine, its chancellor said on Wednesday. “In the coming weeks, the German government has decided that we will supply Ukrai... #HIMARSartillery #IRISTdefensesystem #OlafScholz #Ukrainewar #WeaponforUkraine
Putin should not win his war, states Olaf Scholz. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz described Russia’s aggressive war in Ukraine as a failure and said Putin should not win. “He has already misse... #OlafScholz #RussianAgression #WarinUkraine #worldeconomicforum
German opposition leader accuses Scholz of delaying arms supplies to Ukraine. The opposition Christian Democratic Union leader, Friedrich Merz, has accused Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s federal government of deliberately delaying arms supplies to Ukraine. “Obviously, th... #FriedrichMerz #OlafScholz #Ukrainewar #WeaponforUkraine
Germany allocates €125M to support Ukraine. Germany will further increase its assistance to Ukraine, which is experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe due to Russian aggression, stated German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. He stressed his determinatio... #AidforUkraine #GermanyAid #OlafScholz #WarinUkraine
EU Parliament members appeal to Scholz over the Russian energy embargo. EU Parliament members appeal to Scholz over the Russian energy embargo. #EnergyEmbargo #EUparliament #OlafScholz #RussianEnergy
Scholz may face resignation due to the refusal to supply Ukraine with heavy weapons. Scholz may face resignation due to the refusal to supply Ukraine with heavy weapons. #CDU #OlafScholz
