Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier During his visit to Ukraine he got a small impression of what the war in the country means for the people. Immediately after his arrival in the small town of Koryukivka northeast of Kyiv was there on Tuesday Air alarm triggered. Steinmeier, Mayor Ratan Achmedow and a group of citizens then went into one air raid shelter. There, the Federal President had the people report on how they experienced the Russian war of aggression. A woman tearfully told about the start of the war on February 24, another about her husband, who is fighting against the Russian army. “My husband is on the front lines, on the hottest front lines,” she said.
“We spent the first hour and a half in the air raid shelter”, said Steinmeier afterwards. “That gave us a particularly impressive understanding of the conditions under which people live here.” It was a situation that could not be ruled out during the visit. The people there have to live with this situation every day. “Having the conversation there was particularly impressive. And I don’t think it was just me.”
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, the Russian army had in neighboring Belarus up to ten Iranian-made combat drones launched. That’s why the alarm went off. Initially, nothing was known about impacts and damage.
Steinmeier had already visited Koryukivka in 2021. During the Second World War in 1943, the city was the scene of an SS massacre of the inhabitants. The Federal President arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday morning and then continued to Chernihov. In the afternoon, talks were held in the capital, including with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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