(11 Jun 2024)
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Berlin – 11 June 2024
1. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy walking toward the podium at Ukraine Recovery Conference
2. Audience applauding, including (from left) Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenskyy, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
3. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine:
"We are capable to drive out the Russian army from our land, we have won the Black Sea for Ukraine and we have proved that with modern air defense system we can shoot down Russian rockets and drones. This it is key to deprive Russia from any victory. For the moment, the greatest strategic advantage Russia has over Ukraine is its advantage in the sky. This is missile and bomb terror that helps Russian troops advance on the ground, and Russian hatred destroy lives.”
4. Wide of conference
5. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine:
"Until we deprive Russia of the ability, the ability to terrorize Ukraine, Putin will have no real interest in seeking an honest peace, and the illusion that Ukraine can be erased by bombing and missile attacks on everything that provides life its foundation and protection will remain unchanged."
6. Mid of audience
7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine:
"Ukraine has all the natural foundations for modern energy, but without your financing and investments, we won’t be able to realize this. This is not about grants, but about high-yield investments for your companies, about a large market for your equipment, about loan programs for your institutions. That together with us will create a new energy foundation. This could create at least tens of thousands of new jobs for you and for us."
8. Von der Leyen and Scholz applauding
9. Zelenskyy walking
10. Zelenskyy and Scholz
STORYLINE:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed for short-term help in repairing his country’s electricity network and long-term investment in its energy system as a conference to gather support for Ukraine’s recovery from the destruction wreaked by Russia’s war opened Tuesday.
Starting a week of intense diplomacy that will also see him travel to the Group of Seven summit of Ukraine’s leading Western allies in Italy and a global peace summit in Switzerland, Zelenskyy also renewed his calls for more help in repelling missile attacks by Russian forces.
The two-day Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin follows up on a similar gathering in London a year ago.
The German hosts say it is bringing together 2,000 people from national and local politics, business and other areas, arguing that the task of supporting Ukraine’s recovery is too big for governments alone.
Among other immediate problems, sustained Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power grid in recent weeks have forced energy companies to institute nationwide rolling blackouts.
Zelenskyy told the conference that, in the coming month, Ukraine needs equipment for heating and electricity plants that are currently out of action.
According to the president, nine gigawatts of electricity generating capacity have been destroyed — including 80% of thermal power and one-third of hydroelectric power — while the peak consumption in Ukraine last winter was 18 gigawatts. Energy, he said, continues to be “one of (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s main targets.”
Looking beyond Ukraine’s immediate problems, Zelenskyy said foreign investments in energy would be mutually beneficial.
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