The warfare in Ukraine might final for years, German International Minister Annalena Baerbock stated, assuring the nation’s continued assist from Europe’s largest economic system.
“We should be ready for the chance that the warfare might final for years,” she advised Germany’s Bild am Sonntag in an interview revealed on Sunday. This suggests that Ukraine should should be supplied with heavy weaponry subsequent summer season, she added.
“Ukraine is defending our freedom, safety structure too and we assist Ukraine financially and militarily for so long as obligatory,” she was quoted as saying.
The international minister additionally defended Ukraine’s declare to the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which was seized by Russia in 2014. “Crimea can also be a part of Ukraine. The world by no means acknowledged the unlawful annexation of 2014,” she stated.