cia and it been today for the of the international come the coordinate made it clear to me. and i love how important this is not international public this, the prosecution is, but also national prosecution. the images may not, you know, it's one thing to see the images of murdered men like women and children in the newspaper in germany. but it's a completely different thing to be there on the ground where these people were buried were finally buried after their bodies had lain for days on the rhode island are still to me and therefore we don't just support the work of the international criminal court minded but i said today in speaking with the public, prosecutor general, that we will accord, coordinate, international support better because there is enough funding now for this work. but when it comes to forensics, we in germany want to offer more support, get into the in fight. in addition to public prosecutors for sexual violence, crimes will be freed up to investigate this very important work. once a diem,

not that my mental and displacement again at my visit to day and my conversation with the public prosecutor general of international court made it so clear to me that it's not just about collecting advice from boucher and etc, but also collecting evidence from the millions who have fled their homes, who experienced the most awful crimes before they fled. not just how the people they loved were murdered, but how they themselves up off one divide, became the victims of violence, of war crimes born of rape, self defeating. and this is why we will divide, increase the collection of evidence in germany as well. and willis step to this collection of evidence up and use it together for this purpose. in addition, does mention, it is important that people who have lost everything, they had an airplane. this became so very clear to me that an entire city was

largely able to flee and pin or coming, and they need to have the opportunities come back about them on the one hand in terms of the housing available to them there. but also in terms of mind clearance and rebuilding their lives there and regarding mind clearance we as the federal republic of germany, backup will offer more support in the future because it's not just about the mind clearance militarily, where we have been working with you for a long time, but it's also about clearing minds in villages and towns and cities and to make progress with this so that people can come back to their homes nevi to high up, but never again. oh, so means that those who were attacked who are under attack ukrainians left will not be left alone in their battle for survival in supplying weapons is not an end in itself supplying weapons in this situation where

a brutal war of aggression has been unleashed against your country and is still being waged. beasley fine can get from the regions that are living in peace. you have managed to defend yourself supplying weapons means that there won't be even more of these war crimes that i saw with my own eyes to day in your country. particularly in the east of the country, we want to prevent this route supplying weapons and i'll state so clearly because the visit of a foreign minister is always important in terms of what we're doing as germany in another country. if i cannot forget often that these often weapons are being supplied to ensure that war crimes crimes are not committed in other places. you talked about the mother with her 3 month old daughter. i know jackie and lost it now, but when a miss i'll took everything important to her. and this book that i received today

contains that case over 200 children, who since the 24th of february have been many, i've had their lives stolen from them who have been killed and not just as a foreign minister, but as a mother, as a father it breaks your hearts and this is our responsibility. and this is why we are supporting your country. oh, even more now in military terms as well. yeah, that means you put that on top of the weapons that we've already supplied in the days to come. we will be training ukrainian soldiers beginning on with the modern tank. how it, sir, 2000 that we will be delivering together with our, my colleagues in the netherlands and we were working with german industry to ensure that the ukrainians get highly modern systems in order to protect their cities from attacks in the future. and v o p even better than they did quite, you know,

the white european free ukraine. we will continue to support in terms of humanitarian, financial, economic, technological and political and energy. white ways not just to day organ but to morrow lung. and in the long term decided new york, and this is why you many my to day one is that we are here. we opening our embassy in kiev and once again, but to begin with on, on a small scale with limited hours of operation, i'm very grateful. that ambassador of the photos and is here in has come along with us here today and will continue her work here in your free city. utah does your demitra. the very fact that we are here to day shows if how diluted putin is appears to be believed that our european values liberty. and you mang no soc, make people that you not for the week and decadent ukraine. husky proved that if the opposite is true, your will to liberty makes you strong this and that you know,

and the knowledge him that you are fighting for your humanity against an army driven by cynicism and terror. come, i'm going to point embed, thus, your battle is a battle for a liberal democracy and against laughter. autocratic fine regime with many who believe that democracies were obsolete, will draw their conclusions based on your actions. here you alone are paying a basin and high heart breaking about in imaginable price. but your success is also the success of millions of people in the world, the fighting for liberty and peace. what and placing their hopes on these values. and this is why today about being not tired of a, the vast majority of the international community is whether ukraine would on their habit for me class. and for this reason as well, it is clear to me that ukraine is an intrinsic part of europe. duffy,

i have very much hope that your aspirations to join in the e you will get a strong response even though in becoming a po you member, is a long process that cannot be shortened. what we don't want our false promises that we cannot deliver on, but let me emphasize here that becoming a full membership funding is a difficult job yawn. i know in the european union, we need to have a further reform. we need to increase our cooperation. this is something we've learned from this brutal war of aggression, but yet i also want to say that the moment has not come to focus on red tape and, and bureaucracy. we need to take a clear position, one fleet in on venue, the hour of war and peace. and if we talk about been the candidate status one of ukraine, i believe that the president of the u commission who invited you to apply will find

a good way to ensure that these are not empty promises. but that is we will play the way for one dom, although i think ma can come to your role in the european union and make it clear that ukraine belongs to the european union in the long term. it's my firm conviction for by that when this war is over and this war will and milanni i knocked out how long it will continue. lie, danny, i'm afraid we do not know. dan verged you. but when it ends, you crane will be free and will decide its own destinies as i, that is our goal and we are working together with you lucky, you know, and you have to achieve this. thank you. and the 1st question from deutsche vela, how much is really not a burning a hair? don't develop question to install guns, the carla. occasionally you get angry about germany recently in the case one, there was the ban of the flag in the memorial ceremony on the 8th lay. what do you

think would have to happen to ensure that our relationship is the way it was before this war and to foreign minister back on the 8th of the board? not sorry, early february, you will hear welcome and you would know all spoke clearly again, supplying weapons to regret that now in the deck wouldn't go and is that perhaps one of the reasons why and on your mom, germany, your phone has always been a little bit behind the other partners when it comes to the weapons question in ukraine? no, but where in my life, never have i been offended or watching against everybody. i know this is not what i've done. this is part of my character. they've got to the episode that you mentioned. i would rather refrain from generalizing. it was not, this is meant by the federal government of germany. so he's been on the flags,

not the decision was made by the city of berlin. i just think that there's not a well thought out and was discriminatory in asia, equating equating symbols of a country. and that is the aggressor on the one hand to the country that is defending herself. and she called the suppression, whose problem tie and who, by the way, if you decide to love this particular saying the same values that are lin suitable in this. so crowded which is lisman freedom. so that happen if somebody in the office or the police on the side of the neutrality is the best approach and that everything should be banned to anything. oh yeah. then this approach, i think, is not only wrong and deeply, right, which, but also morally doors and the criminal. no,

i continue to insist on green ski problem. but for some one, leg up, reprint is identical to that of brush. well, you know, something is wrong with the people who make the decisions and we need to talk to them in order to find out what exactly is wrong with them. what was that all that was it ok and okay, goes to another piece. it like alpha scoggins way i could regarding your respond yourself just before the war broke out. i was here and i said to the german laugh house upon the bonus tag. that if we're going to change our policy, we have to do this fully conscious of the consequences. and we did that on the 24th of february in the weeks before we did not do that. and we were indeed here at a comma press conference, because if you change your route, you can't say 2 days later. oh, actually we changed our minds for him. and that was before this brutal war of aggression was unleashed when it was

a consideration len. because germany at the time i was in the doctor responsible with friends for getting them minsk, a corridor back on track color. and that was our mandate at the time against period . and i personally don't always have to wait things up and which i knew that if we take a different step just before the 24th of february, wouldn't that perhaps be just the excuse that the russian president was waiting for it to say, well, now i can declare war on ukraine because all of these negotiations that germany was supposedly supporting, clearly, and i'm not meant fairly and then on the 24th of february and the moments where the russian president made it all too clear that he was not planning to negotiate. a tall but rather had lied to our faces. owns we changed our political course so i picked him up by making it clear on that. so we would now supply weapons to ukraine

in fine. because the oppertunity of negotiation had been bombed out of the water by the then the russian president vladimir putin, and by no one else. that's mexico. and then that one comment that you just made here in that moment we decided to act and germany has a leading role as one of the greatest industrial countries, only european union contingency economy. we see that when it comes to phasing out to fossil fuels, piano, but my, as europeans, we can only do this together. and that's why it's important to me that every step that we announced publicly, even that we have thought it through, kept us in a sustainable manner. and i made this clear with the sanction was on. you can't just rolled back sanctions if you get a sense that this is impacted on our economy and germany. no, it is only when new crane is free and can determinants on destiny and says we can live with our neighbors in peace. can we do this in the same as true for delivering

weapons? and we know that i'm in terms of the european armed forces because we wanted to live in peace. and that meant that we all did not always have a v tried in defense capability that we needed to 100 percent at any given time. and this is why we have to set clear priorities of what we're going to deliver when are you. and i don't think we are lagging here behind. if we look at what we've already delivered to ukraine, we're talking 16 rounds of ammunition, thousands of grenades and explosives, thousands of rocket powered grenades, thousands of anti aircraft, armament, stingers, and stray loads. yosemite, but also military equipment like night vision, telescopes, indian paramilitary, get what gear me asking now ground mounted re does, et cetera. and we had to look at what we could do in terms of armed vehicles, armored vehicles rather. but we realized that when it comes to the leopards, we can deliver the leopards. we want to deliver the leopards, but we haven't got the ammunition yet. and we have to be honest about this because

what's the point if you promise something for defense? and then you can only deliver part of the promise, and this is why we are currently only looking at all of the countries who can deliver this ammunition to deliver the ammunition for the leopards back. didn't use it. and like i said, the next step are highly mod, durn tank. howitzers does it, which means that we need to be able to use these as drone defense scott and as ground mounted radar to mine. and i happen to be here, and it's hardly coincidence that i'm here with my isn't dutch and foreign minister color woodcock. funding hooks that i, we came here together on the train and in recent weeks worked together to ensure that between the netherlands and germany, we deliver these tank howitzers because it's the case here that one country cannot deliver everything alone. because we don't have enough for our own defense covey capabilities, we will be providing 7 and the training.