(2 Sep 2024)
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Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine – 02 September 2024
1. Netherlands and Ukraine national flags and sign “Zaporizhzhia, September, 2 2024” sign
2. Netherlands and Ukraine national flags by podium
3. Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian President, and Dick Schoof, Prime Minister of the Netherlands enter press conference
4. Media
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dick Schoof, Prime Minister of the Netherlands:
“It must never be normal for children to have to go to school underground. It must never become normal for people’s homes to be cold because power plants have been bombed. It must never become normal for people to live under the threat of an invading army that is targeting their city. The people here, in Zaporizhzhia and throughout Ukraine have the right to live in freedom and security."
6. Journalist asks the question
7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine:
“We believe that the Kursk operation may also impact this area, where there may be a reduction in escalation due to a reduction in Russian troop numbers. But so far, we see that it is difficult there, and the most combat-ready Russian brigades have been concentrated in this area because it has always been their main target – Donbas, the complete, total occupation of Donbas, Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Let’s see what happens next. In any case, we have been talking to the commander-in-chief for two days now, and no matter how difficult it is, there has been no advance in the Pokrovsk direction for two days.”
8. Wide of Zelenskyy and Schoof listening to the questions
9. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine:
“The exchange reserve is being replenished and the exchanges have begun. And we have exchanges for a reason, because we have people to exchange for our guys and girls who are in captivity. We have captured more than 600 people and we have people to exchange for ours.”
10. Mid of Zelenskyy and Schoof listening to the questions
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dick Schoof, Prime Minister of the Netherlands:
"We are still continuing at the training center, training pilots. We are still in the middle of a process of delivering F-16s to Ukraine. So we try to speed it up every time. And the same is true about Patriot systems together with our partners. So we do everything we can to speed it up. And I think in relation to your question and I think there was a senator in the United States who mentioned that maybe you could use experienced pilots from the F-16 from other countries. And that would be an interesting idea, because then you can just speed up the process of deploying the F-16s. But we have to look into those things, with all the countries involved with the F-16 coalition."
12. Zelenskyy and Schoof leaving press conference
STORYLINE:
Dutch leader Dick Schoof has been discussing the Kursk operation and F-16 deliveries during a visit to Ukraine.
Schoof, visiting Ukraine for the first time since taking office, travelled with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the city of Zaporizhzhia, just 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the front line.
During a press conference Schoof evoked a plan floated last month by Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsay Graham to let retired F-16 pilots from other countries join the fight in Ukraine.
“That would be an interesting idea, because then you can just speed up the process of deploying the F-16s."
But he added that it would have to be discussed with the countries involved with the F-16 coalition.
AP video by Alex Babenko
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