Their meeting with President Zelensky is underway.
Air-raid sirens sound in the Ukrainian capital during the visits of French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Romanian President Klaus Johannis. Four leaders arrived in Kyiv by night train on their first visit to Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion on February 24.
All four before the meeting with President Vladimir Zelensky arrived in Irpen, which is on the eve of Macron's visit on air BMFTV called it “the place where the killings took place.”
Sirens have been in Kyiv almost every day since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Italian Prime Minister Draghi stopped in front of the bombed-out buildings in Irpen: “The whole world is on your side,” he told local authorities. The mayor of the Kyiv suburb Oleksandr Markushyn and the head of the Kyiv regional military administration Oleksiy Kuleba met the guests.
Scholz, Macron and Johannis soon joined the Italian prime minister. Accompanied by armed Ukrainian soldiers and a crowd of journalists, they marched along houses blackened by shelling and flames among broken pines.
“All this must be seen and known”, – Draghi emphasized.
“We “Not only do we want to show our solidarity, we also want to assure that the assistance we organize: financial, humanitarian, but also in the field of armaments, will continue,” Scholz said in a comment to Bild.
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” We will do this while Ukraine's struggle for independence continues, “he assured.
“Unfortunately, there have been mass killings in Bucha and other cities, these are war crimes,” Macron said. “Ukraine needs more effective defensive weapons” to protect itself from Russian invasion, he added, noting the heroism of Ukrainians in the face of Russian barbarism. “We have all seen these images of a devastated city, which is also a hero city, because it was here, among other things, that Ukrainians stopped the Russian army, which was marching on Kyiv. Heroism of the army, but also of the Ukrainian population “, – Macron emphasized.
In Irpen, he also mentioned that the city, located on the northwestern outskirts of Kiev, has the first traces of war crimes.
Graffiti on the wall with the inscription” Make Europe, not war (“Make Europe, not war)” touched Macron: “It's very touching to see it. This is a valid message. “
“This visit is very important for Ukrainians, so that President [Macron] realizes the damage and the incredible resistance of the Ukrainian people,” said French Ambassador to Ukraine Etienne de Poncins.
Near the photo and video exhibition presented to the leaders of the four countries in Irpen, he explained that they” showed the trajectory of development (certain cities) broken by the war. “
After the German chancellor in Irpen saw firsthand the scale of the destruction left by Putin's troops, he called the Russian invasion a “war of destruction.” in Ukraine.
“I have no words to describe the incredible human tragedy and horrific destruction we saw in Irpen today. I firmly reiterate my call for all Russian aggressors to be brought to justice in international criminal justice, which Romania fully supports,” he wrote. in Twitter president.
No words to describe the unimaginable human tragedy and horrible destructions we saw today in Irpin. I strongly renew my appeal for all Russian perpetrators to be held responsible by the international criminal justice, which Romania fully supports. pic.twitter.com/ZEb8k2s6EC
– Klaus Iohannis (@KlausIohannis) June 16, 2022
Irpin, on the northwestern outskirts of Kyiv, became the site of violent clashes between Russians and Ukrainians in the early days of Russian aggression. The Russian army quickly took control of this rich suburb, which before the war had a population of 60,000, and occupied it throughout March. In total, more than 1,300 bodies of killed civilians were found in the suburbs of Kyiv after the liberation of the region. Some of them were tortured and executed.
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