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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Jun 16, 2022, 01:24 PM Jun 2022

European Leaders Visit Ukraine as Kyiv Renews Calls for More Military Support

KYIV, Ukraine—The leaders of France, Germany and Italy met with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine as the war of attrition with Russia reaches a pivotal moment and Kyiv amplifies its calls for Western military support to counter Moscow’s artillery barrages.

French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi reached Kyiv by train after huddling en route. Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, posted a video showing the three leaders exiting a platform at a Kyiv railway station accompanied by armed guards.

“We’re present, focused,” Mr. Macron said, describing the visit as a message of European unity. The leaders planned to visit a site where massacres occurred and then hold talks with Mr. Zelensky, Mr. Macron said, adding: “I think this is an important moment.”

The leaders’ visit is being closely watched in Ukraine and in capitals across Europe, where divisions have begun to emerge over how to bring the nearly four-month conflict to an end. Kyiv says any territorial concessions to Moscow are off the table and only a massive transfer of weapons and ammunition will hold advancing Russian forces at bay.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/european-leaders-arrive-in-ukraine-as-kyiv-renews-calls-for-more-military-support/ar-AAYx1C6

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European Leaders Visit Ukraine as Kyiv Renews Calls for More Military Support (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2022 OP
Step up boys..the fate of Europe and the balance of power around the world is at stake PortTack Jun 2022 #1
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