Germany provides 350 generators to Ukraine to overcome its energy crisis
BERLIN: Germany has announced that it will provide over 350 generators to Ukraine after Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power grid that have left the country’s major parts powerless.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and said that Germany will send producers, as well as financial aid to repair energy infrastructure worth 56 million euros ($58).
France’s President Emmanuel Macron is heading to Washington for President Joe Biden’s first state visit this week. Russia’s war in Ukraine was on the agenda of Thursday’s meeting at the White House, as Biden and Macron worked to maintain economic and military support for Kyiv as it tries to fight Russian forces.
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Meanwhile, Biden has avoided accepting Macron’s call for Ukraine to resume peace talks with Russia, something Biden has repeatedly said is a decision that rests solely with Ukrainian leaders.
The US Ambassador to NATO, Robert Hunter, expressed concern about military aid given to Ukraine by NATO countries.
“It is surprising that the coalition of the United States has not done what it is now in terms of anti-drone and anti-missile,” Hunter said in an interview with Al Jazeera from Washington. , DC. Hunter said it appeared in the fall that when winter came, although the Ukrainians would continue to put up a “tough fight”, Russia would try to gain an advantage by pursuing a source of energy and Summer in Ukraine.
Responding to the call of the Ukrainian Foreign Minister at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Bucharest, Hunter said: “Faster, faster, faster, this will come out immediately, it’s not something to talk about and this will happen in a few months, Aljazeera reported.
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The former US ambassador said that action should have been taken to stop Russia’s destruction of Ukraine instead of just repairing the damage. At the start of the two-day meeting in Romania, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Ukraine will be one day, and added that the immediate focus should be on supporting Kyiv’s military and providing non-lethal aid such as winter.
A Zambian student who died in Ukraine was fighting for a Russian Wagnerian mercenary group, according to its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin. Russia said it had no choice but to stop nuclear talks with the United States, adding that it was unlikely the meeting would take place this year.
