2024-01-03 10:40:27
Paris, London and Berlin express support for Ukraine after Tuesday’s large-scale attack
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna, “condemns with the greatest firmness” the Russian strikes on Ukraine on Tuesday January 2, in a press release. For the Quai d’Orsay, Moscow “continues its strategy of terror aimed at destroying Ukrainian civilian infrastructure in order to undermine the resilience of the Ukrainian people”ensuring that “France will continue to provide [à l’Ukraine] the assistance necessary to enable him to exercise his self-defense”.
Her German counterpart Annalena Baerbock she estimated on that Russian President Vladimir Putin “wants to destroy Ukraine. With the Patriot and IRIS-T that we supply, lives are saved every day”, she wrote. The Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army, Valery Zaluzhny, actually greeted the success of the American Patriot air defense system, which was used to shoot down the ten Russian Kinjal Kh-47M2 missiles fired by Russia this Tuesday morning.
As for the United Kingdom, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak assured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, by telephone, that London “ would continue to strongly support Ukraine in its fight against aggression and occupation throughout 2024 and in the future”, according to a statement from Downing Street. The head of the British government also “underlined the efforts made by the United Kingdom to provide military and diplomatic support to Ukraine, including through further deliveries” of weapons.
Yesterday, Monday January 1, it was Justin Trudeau who spoke with the Ukrainian president about strengthening the “Ukrainian air shield”wrote the latter on Telegramwhile ” on New Year’s Eve and the next day, our air defense forces managed to destroy more than 80 attack drones »and specified by M. Zelensky. Since the start of the Russian offensive, Canada has committed to providing military aid of more than 1.3 billion euros to Ukraine.
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