Zelensky thanks Germany for sending Patriot systems and calls on “all allies” to increase their help

Berlin demands a European plan for the distribution of refugees from Ukraine

May 25. () –

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, thanked Germany this Friday for the delivery of Patriot air defense systems, highlighting the country’s leadership in international support for Ukraine, and has urged the rest of its partners to increase their shipments to face Russia’s attacks.

“In April, (Chancellor) Olaf Scholz informed me of the decision to provide Ukraine with Germany’s third ‘Patriot’ air defense system,” Zelensky recalled in a post on the social network the delivery of this system to Ukraine,” he added.

This gesture, the Ukrainian president celebrated, “demonstrates once again that (Germany) keeps its word as a trustworthy ally” and has stressed that the country “is leading the strengthening of Ukraine’s air defense, saving Ukrainian lives and preserving peace in Europe”.

Zelensky has also noted that “the need for additional air defense systems is critical” in the face of continuous attacks by Russia, which “launches missiles and drones against Ukrainian cities and communities every day.”

“That is why the latest German decisions are so important,” he argued, telling his remaining international allies that, “by acting decisively, all of Ukraine’s allies can and must prevent Russia from destroying Ukrainian and other nations’ lives.”

“UNIFORM” DISTRIBUTION OF UKRAINIAN REFUGEES

This Friday, the German Ministry of the Interior called for a large-scale distribution plan within the European Union to manage the arrival of new refugees from Ukraine.

Germany is “firmly in favor of solidarity in the distribution of those seeking protection and believes that it is particularly necessary to discuss and find solutions with regard to secondary migration from other EU Member States,” said a spokesperson for the minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeser, to the newspaper ‘Die Welt’ and this was reported by the German news agency DPA.

The objective, Faeser has clarified in this regard, is “to seek a uniform distribution regime for new arrivals from Ukraine throughout the EU.”