(4 Nov 2024)
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Kyiv, Ukraine – 4 November 2024
1. German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock and Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha arriving to news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (German) Annalena Baerbock, German foreign minister:
"You are not alone. You have strong friends and partners worldwide. Right here. Right now. We stand firmly by your side, as long as you need us, because you are also fighting for the freedom of all of us in Europe."
3. Wide of Baerbock and Sybiha at news conference
4. SOUNDBITE (German) Annalena Baerbock, German foreign minister:
"And we are also supporting the Ukrainians with further preparations for the winter. To this end, we are increasing our emergency humanitarian aid to an additional €200 million for urgently needed winter emergency aid now."
5. Wide of Baerbock and Sybiha at news conference
6. SOUNDBITE (German) Annalena Baerbock, German foreign minister:
"And regardless of the outcome of tomorrow’s (U.S.) election, this also means for us Germans that we must not make our policy dependent on the outcome of the election, but that we must continue to invest in our own self-protection by supporting Ukraine, that we must invest in our own self-protection through our security and defense policy, and of course this works best if we can do this together, as we have done so far within NATO, with our transatlantic friends, especially the Americans."
7. Baerbock and Sybiha leaving news conference
STORYLINE:
Germany’s top diplomat reaffirmed the country’s support for Ukraine on the eve of a U.S. presidential election that could bring far-reaching changes in Washington’s policy toward Russia’s all-out invasion of its neighbor.
"We stand firmly by your side, as long as you need us, because you are also fighting for the freedom of all of us in Europe," said German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock during a news conference with her Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha.
"And regardless of the outcome of tomorrow’s (U.S.) election, this also means for us Germans that we must not make our policy dependent on the outcome of the election, but that we must continue to invest in our own self-protection by supporting Ukraine," she added.
Baerbock arrived Monday in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on an unannounced visit.
Germany is Ukraine’s second biggest weapons supplier after the U.S., and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock vowed that Berlin’s backing would remain steadfast.
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