Germany’s Scholz pledges aid on surprise visit to Ukraine
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz made a surprise visit to war-torn Ukraine on Monday to reaffirm Berlin’s support for Kyiv in its fight against Russia.
Scholz pledged additional military support worth 650 million euros ($680 million) to be delivered before the end of the year by Europe’s biggest supplier of defence goods to Ukraine.
“I travelled to Kyiv tonight: by train through a country that has been defending itself against the Russian war of aggression for over 1,000 days,” Scholz said in a post on X.
He added in a statement that “Ukraine has been defending itself heroically against the merciless Russian war of aggression.”
“With my renewed visit here in Kyiv, I would like to express my solidarity with Ukraine,” added Scholz, who faces new elections in February.
