(Bloomberg) — President Volodymyr Zelenskiy traveled to Berlin on Sunday, where he met with Chancellor Olaf Scholz and other leaders, a day after a visit to Rome that included an audience wit…
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy traveled to Berlin on Sunday, where he met with Chancellor Olaf Scholz and other leaders, a day after a visit to Rome that included an audience with Pope Francis.
Russia’s defense ministry made a rare admission of combat deaths, saying two of its commanders had been killed in action in eastern Ukraine as the battle for control continues around Bakhmut, the Donetsk city that’s been largely laid to waste. Scholz hosted Zelenskiy in Berlin for the first time since Russia’s invasion and said the Ukrainian leader’s visit was “a strong signal.” It came a day after the German government announced its biggest package yet of materiel for Ukraine, worth nearly $3 billion.Germany’s humanitarian support to Ukraine has become the biggest foreign disaster aid mission in the nation’s history, according to the Federal Agency for Technical Relief.
The Belarusian strongman, a key ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, appeared frail during a visit to Moscow on May 9 for the Victory Day parade in Red Square and has been out of sight since then. There have been unconfirmed reports he’s been hospitalized.
Zelenskiy said on Twitter that he urged Pope Francis, in their private meeting at the Vatican on Saturday, “to condemn Russian crimes in Ukraine. Because there can be no equality between the victim and the aggressor.” Earlier, Russian media reported that one plane and one helicopter had crashed, with the circumstances still under investigation.
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