(11 Oct 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Berlin, Germany – 11 October 2024
1. Wide press briefing
2. SOUNDBITE(Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine: ++CONTAINS ANGLE CHANGE++
“For us, it is very important that aid does not decrease next year. I want to thank you for the announcement of the new package, the future package with the help of our partners. For us it is very important to think about the coming year. To have everything sufficient to protect people and lives."
3. Mid of press briefing
4. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine:
"Today I will present the plan to Olaf (Scholz) on how, in our view, to force Russia to end this war. That is, how to end this war – hopefully no later than in 2025 – and guarantee that aggression will not be repeated. This plan is a bridge to hold a productive peace summit that will truly put an end to the war. This plan is not meant to replace our peace initiative but rather to strengthen Ukraine’s position in order to bring peace closer. We can achieve this through cooperation—all of our partners. We are counting on Germany’s support as well."
5. Mid of Zelenskyy and Scholtz shaking hands
STORYLINE:
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday it’s important that allies’ aid to Ukraine doesn’t decrease next year as he received a pledge of a new weapons package from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on a European tour meant to win backing for his “victory plan” aimed at ending the war with Russia.
Zelenskyy arrived in Berlin after stops Thursday in London, Paris and Rome on a tour arranged after a planned summit Saturday with U.S. President Joe Biden and other allied leaders was derailed by Hurricane Milton.
Scholz noted that Germany is Ukraine’s biggest military supporter in Europe and the second-biggest behind the United States, and said “it will stay that way.”
The Ukrainian leader has yet to publicly detail his proposals for “victory.” But the timing of his efforts to lock in European support appears to have the looming U.S. election in mind. Former President Donald Trump has long been critical of U.S. aid to Kyiv.
Ukraine’s stretched and short-handed army is currently under heavy pressure in the country’s eastern Donetsk region. Russian forces recently pushed it out of the Donetsk town of Vuhledar and are now in control of about half of nearby Toretsk. To stop the losses, Zelenskyy needs to secure more help.
In Berlin, he said that Ukraine “would want to end the war no later than in 2025.”
“This plan is a bridge to hold a productive peace summit that will truly put an end to the war,” he said, adding that Ukraine can only strengthen its position against Russia through cooperation with Western partners.
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