and this will have consequences on all our own. of course we are, are concerned when we see, oh, are the challenges they face are. and that said by, it's going to the consequence of the war in ukraine, emerald eyes, a close and highly valued partner of nathan. we have been work with them for many years. we have agreed now to step oper, our partnership, and also to help to build a fence capacity. or we have a tailored defense capacity building or an agreement in place or to help to strengthen their different institutions and to help them or to strengthen their a resilience. we also welcome, of course, efforts by individual allies, earls and all that you'd have been union is adrena lot to support to them all the while. because i think if there's one lesson or that is the we can learn from the war in ukraine, is the importance of supporting those countries which are vulnerable for russian

aggression as soon as possible. and then that also applies for mold along on. so that's the reason why i need to work on multiple sandra. one more support to model your next one, please. hello, had him on gomez, from del themes, as you all know, any positive signal from these 2 large multinational powers can serve as a boost for morale, or troops on the front lines and an entire nation in suffering. so my question to president for the lion would be ukraine, would like to begin accession off to the u. within this year. can you tell ukrainians what their government can do to make that dream happen? and secretary general, soc stockton berg and president lensky is coming to the building a summit. and the ukraine would like to see a clear pathway to membership there. so what can ukrainians do to make that dream happen? and i'd like to pay ministers, thoughts on that as well. thank you. yes, c, accession process is a married space process. so it's not a rigid time wise,

but it depends on the candidate country. and it is amazing to see the determination of ukraine to go through this thought process, but at, at more speed. and i'm already there, step forward to apply for becoming a candidate country. and they had to do a lot. and it was impressive to see how they were delivering while fighting a war. it also shows the functioning of the administration and their haley digitize state of the administration, which is impressive. therefore, it is, of course, in the hands of ukraine, how they perform, how they reform, how they improve the status of their country with strong support from the european commission. because this is our task to advise and to support and to help as much as possible on that. and so i can only say it is impressive to see the, the, the,

the strong will of ukraine to join the european union or their willingness to reform sorrow, lead their country. and all this while fighting an aggressor at this is outstanding . it's in their hands. we will have as a process of oral presentation of the progress in spring to the member states. but more important is the report and fall that summarizes for all candidate countries in the accession process, their progress during the year. and i am confident that ukraine will excel in this a report in the fall that then will be presented to the member states. i invited the prison zalinski to attend the natal summit in the villas in july. i really hope that he can be and be there in person, but of course it depends on the situation. recalls hinz the mids over a full fledged war invasion of his country. i'm naples position on the membership

for ukraine remains unchanged. we have stated several times that ukraine will become a member of the alliance. at the same time, we all realize that the 1st step to ensure that that will happen is to ensure that ukraine prevails as a sovereign in the plantation without the sovereign democratic free ukraine. the membership will not be an issue at all. so or focus all our efforts is now on and sure that ukraine prevails, that putin doesn't win, because then there will be no issue of a membership or for ukraine. then when this war ends, then of course we need to ensure that a history doesn't repeat itself. because so this is, there is a pattern over russian aggression, george on 2008 from e, r, and east and on boston, 2014. and then the full fledged invasion aah!

last year. and we need to make sure that when the war ends now that her russia is not able to continue to chip away at you to pin security on that we need to break this cycle or russian aggression. this will be about enabling the ukrainians to have strong armed forces themselves, so they can deter regression south. but it will also be an issue of creating the framework or, and they're under and them, or a political framework that, that, that sensorcare mr. moscow. that, that, that they're gonna continue to attack an independent sovereign. them cut, they get neighbor ukraine. so we need to help our ukraine move forward on the u. atlantic path or ukraine is support to do atlantic family on the 1st step is to ensure that ukraine provides us over the nation. and to, to add to that

a gray areas are a source of conflict in war. and that's why i nato has been the piece project and we have to believe in ukraine, and therefore we also have to give military aid so that the ukraine can defend themselves and, and then when the war is over, then i move on with the open door policy of native. thank you, next one please. madison, run for german public broadcaster our day. a question to the secretary general. you mentioned talks with some turkey. or how can nieto act onto on turkey in order to speed up sweden's joining process. first of all, this is a priority for natal and and for me and i'm confident that both finland and susan will become full members of the alliance. her 2nd, i have her just met with preston though the wrong under and of course we discussed also how we can make progress on the air and accession often and,

and sweden and her. we agreed to ease thought the talks to convene the meeting in brussels at the naval headquarters with finance sweden, under an tanikia, under, under. we'd need also to understand that so far this has been the quickest accession process in naples more than history. a financing, apply the in made last year, all the in june 30 allies, also to kia, decided to invite them. and though we also all thought allies agreed including trickier on the exception protocols and all thought alice have signed these exception protocols, then 28th auto 3rd allies old is ratified in national parliaments during gary and parliament on medicare that there was thought the accession process of the discussions and the decisions are lost the next week and then on on

finn and unseen. i cannot guarantee you in a specific date. ah, but term on fin, none that turkey has made that clear data. they don't see any problems with revocation or with sweden there some issues still remains io medicaid, that both finan and sweden have lived up to their commitments, or they are signed off to or at the nato summit or lost the year. and so i think the time has come to ratify both of them now. but of course a turkey has no the position. and then we have this a trilateral mechanism to address how to, how to ensure that her, that turn the accession processor continues to move forward. and the, and the most important thing is not a weather financing, joins exactly at the same time. the most important thing is that a joint as soon as possible, you can briefly, i had one more thing that is that we need to understand that finances are the total

different case. now they're much more to occur now than before. they applied. because as pointed accession process, they have now been integrated more and more into natal, civilian and military structures or defense pan in keeping to targets. are we exercised more together? nato's increases presence, different dollars, also provided a bilateral security services. so it's absolutely inconceivable that finan or sweden ah, will be faithful in the military threats from russia without nate thought or reacting. so are we are making a lot of progress or come a long way already and i'm confident of also find as they serve process. so and time for final question please. you have been watching nato secretary general again stilton burge, you commission president ursula founder lines and estonian prime minister kaya calif, speaking in the baltic of giving birth fate of estonia, 3, marking,

one year to the day since russia again, a full scale invasion. the message here, very clear, put must not when's and today all 3 have reiterated support for ukraine in their effort to repel the russian invasion. doing and we have seen signs of they may be confusing, i'm planning to send the lead late. and you are joining us here for special coverage of this somber anniversary date of your corresponded max xander is joining us here in the studio. that's what do you make of what we just heard. right, so this is rather a symbolic event. this was about sending stanley united the e representative. you commission president, was it on the line? nato secretary general, instruct mac, and there's tony and prime minister kind of cause altogether sending a clear message to moscow. keeping attention on the issue, keeping attention,

what is happening in ukraine at the moment, not taken away from the solar less of the moment, so to say, with any ground breaking news that we've heard so far. but was interesting what i think is, what was it on the line you commission president said is that the state is naturally about the one year anniversary. but it's also about estonian independence a today. and she has said that independence has been put to the test and referring to the 991 independence of estonia from the soviet union. having been under under occupation by moscow for somewhat 50 years. she was a warrant of putin this further aggression. she said that couldn't fail to achieve anything of what he had planned when he, when he started the invasion just a year ago, something that the nato psycho general just told me that also repeated when we talk

about support for ukraine and that they have plants, it's more than just nice, whereas of course, max, it is also weapons. i'm very interesting. the, the, the estonian prime minister was talking about the joint procurement of weapons. just walk us through what exactly that would mean and, and what might be coming down the pipeline. right. so this isn't a suggestion by that came by the historians just a couple of days ago. the idea is to add to the european piece facility, which is a mechanism under which you countries can procure, military aid and weapons. they can't take money from the budget and buy weapons and send them to ukraine, or what they can do is they can reimburse individual countries. individual member states that spend money on ammunition or weapons entity plan that can be reimbursed by this european piece facility. now, what the estonians are suggesting is to add to the 5 and a half 1000000000 years that are in this pot,

add another 4000000000 and use this to. yeah, to start a joint procurement of weapons. in this case we have, we're seeing a massive shortfall of ammunition in ukraine at the moment. a lot of artillery shells are being used in particular, 155 millimeter shells. and the world is simply not producing enough for the ukrainians to keep up with this pace. they are firing roughly $200000.00 rounds every month. the whole european defense industry produces roughly $300000.00 of these year. so the idea that the stones are now proposing is that all these, the european countries come together, use this money to build additional production lines, to train additional workers and significantly wrap the production of ammunition that is needed to defend ukraine to take back territory there. and also to yeah, to, to have something against the what the russians are doing,

cuz they already wrapped up their production. and i center. thank you very much. while the war in ukraine has been documented by journalists and photographers who have captured, fearing images of the conflict, they have provided a constant reminder of the human cost of the war on and off the battlefield. russia invades ukraine, attacking from air, land, and sea. within days, millions of people fled to fighting, leaving everything a maternity hospital head by a missile. for those who stayed behind towns led to waste, people brutalized and killed. a steel plant becomes a symbol of resistance, but falls to an overwhelming russian onslaught. moments of pride as ukraine

struck back as winter came, a deadly war of attrition sat in a year on nowhere in ukraine is truly safe in a war that still has no end in sight. and d. w. correspondents have been on the ground in ukraine from the 1st day of ashes invasion here. mathias ballinger funny for char and nick connelly share what they experienced on that fateful day in february last year. when the war started. i was in florida and in eastern ukraine in the don bus region. and i knew that the war started because my phone rang, we were supposed to swap. i had been working there for a week and my colleague nick was coming to replace me and i was going to take

a train back to keith that day. but he called me from his train and told me that the war had started. and then we decided that he would get off the train and we would go and pick him up. we drove them to key if by car um we took us quite long because we tried to take some more secure routes, some smaller roads, and just drove through the country where we drove the was a little bit far. we could sometimes hear something very distant, but we were not in the zone where fighting was going on. we were quite far from there. we saw people standing queuing up for money at her age. she, ems for petro, a petrol stations, mom and everybody was worried, had worried, looks, people were talking about what was going on, and nobody knew what was going to happen next. february 24th

started from me while i was still asleep right here in this hotel. i remember a loud bang, and by the time i realized this was an explosion, it had been followed by another one. i was confused, i remember asking myself what snacks with one hand i was trying to pack up a few essentials with the other one. i was busy on the phone with my colleagues in the newsroom trying to figure out what to do. i remember being on a, a for alice, and just reporting what i saw on full here, right at my dawn, people scared trying to leave the capital. ukrainian military vehicles rolling through the city. the 1st check points being set up. my camera men at ivy were just trying to do our best whole the altogether and do our jobs. but of course this question rang in our heads as well. is it safe to stay in keith? or should we leave? it was the longest stay. i remember full of uncertainty. that slowly turned into this ultimate realization, russia swore, had begun. when the war began,

i was still in the train, heading east, from here to the dumbass for a reporting assignment. i remember getting on that train with pretty mixed feelings . there was a real sense that the russian state tv propaganda line was getting more aggressive . but after lots full thought, this might really be the real thing. whatever else on that train was just too much surely relaxed they were commenced. this was just clicking but a ground standing that nothing would actually happen or may not be able to sleep. just kind of glued to my phone. and then in the early hours there was that push notification that putin given the speech russian troops were crossing the border. and just as i started making sensible that the internet connection broke off and for 1015 minutes the time i just had no further information, no ability to contact anyone to find out if this was really true. and this happened a couple of times. eventually we started hearing bangs, what late turned out to be an attack on a ukrainian air during we happened to be passing, and i were to conduct the train. i said,

i want to get off. i don't want to go for the reset. it was go closer to these russian troops and she didn't get it. she just couldn't process it. she couldn't, except this was a genuine demonstration. i was only one who got off at that station. it was still before dawn, but immediately people had got in line in front of petrol stations from suit markets in front of banks. there was shocks, there were days that this was something big. this wasn't just in dumbass, but they weren't panicking. that was the kind of extraordinary thing. the national anthem was playing on the 10 was the town. people were making preparations, they were panicking. and those are our colleagues who have been on the ground in ukraine. i'm joined here in the studio by correspondent max andrew, who is also spent much of the year reporting from key than and max, as we've mentioned. and as we mark one year to the day since russia began a full scale invasion, we've had various of answer and speeches. i'm from leaders around the world to date, to mark this day. we're just waiting for our german president, frank thought to shine my or to speak along with ukrainian president followed,

embarrassed the lensky. it's been a big year for germany has in it, when it comes till it's support at the crime. just walk us through it. right, yet it has been a big year indeed. have war broke out just to borders away from, from germany. so to say, just to, to train rides from berlin. and julie found itself in a position where it was confronted with a war not only at his doorstep, but also with the consequences within the country and political decisions that had to be made. jeremy was dealing like other european countries. first of all, poland with a large influx of people fleeing from ukraine. but at the same time, at nato countries, europe, you countries and germany, france, as an example, being the powerhouse as are you taking some of the major decisions,

had to decide on how to react, how to, how to, how, what, how military support, if any, can be brought to ukraine, in fact, the ukraine has leveled many demands when it comes to the germans support. just walk us through what those have been and whether or not the credits you think the ukrainians feel as if the germans have been delivering. i mean, they've now said that they're, they're sending the tanks. right. i remember when, when the war broke out, i shortly after i was at the polish border in the southeast to poland, where 1000000 or 100000 later millions of refugees would come in. and i was approached by ukrainian men who spoke german and he saw that he w logo, my microphone, and he was telling me you from germany. and he was really, he was really agitated. i mean, angry, understandably so. he was like, tell all of shows. thank you for these helmets. he told me right. it was one of the 1st not very well communicated offers that germans made sending, sending at helmets. i'm gonna interrupt you for just a 2nd. the chairman, president, frankfort, a shy myers taking the podium right now. on this day,

one year to the day since rush began a full scale invasion. madam president of this tac, chancellor, the president of the buddhist had excellent faith today above all. ambassador, like a yeah. members of the window tack on, i guess you're hitting a modem of that isn't an ottoman yeah. hidden a is a one street village somewhere between chinese and key if a village like many others in north and ukraine. small, inconspicuous, without any military significance. but i will never forget it today. i was there in october and left me the men and really what people there told me about the terrible ordeal in monday they suffered will remain etched in my memory forever dog. soon after the war began. but after the invasion began,

a russian army unit occupied the village. and when they rounded up, the inhabitants and locked them up, declined off in the basement of the small village school. within one to 200 people . in an aerospace, elderly people, young people, your babies, had one of the youngest, sick as 6 week old baby. vague crouched on the ground in darkness and cold with home though almost nothing to eat with. no toilets. 28 long days and nights. the 1st of the elderly villages died died infinitely in all. 13 of them did not survive the basement, but it was not allowed in token carry, the body is outside. so the children's wasn't in like in the basement, had to play between the bodies of the disease or committee minute adult. when the

main of the will, it told me that this story, they were in tears. and they, as they remembered the suffering, the phone and the humiliation, and the women were even unable to talk about what had happened to them outside the basement. no, i advised you. this is just one example i know i live on is that it was and still is on the day to day reality in many parts of ukraine who the, every day innocent people are dying, mothers and i was widowed and children, old friend, every day russia inflict immeasurable, suffering indian on ukraine and even one year after rush as attack against ukraine, give these a clique, this war continues went into the unrelenting intensity. there are no words in shemelle to describe the pain and cruelty which millions of ukrainians are experiencing. usually when they mourn their loved ones, then z by ye them loved allow me when they fare for their own lives. every time

they hear an air ride thigh rise on and when they endure in ice and snow in the trenches, i'm yada to day on the anniversary of the russian invasion. reminds them he read this giant event with ukraine. then men, there are people among us who have experienced the unimaginable the holiday. who is the hell i went through the gun from the money. they cannot be drained by any one be. this is what you said. so miss police joke. after you survive the desperate fide for maria paul, and besieged in the catacombs of style. we other in we all remember the short video from the catacombs which you dog shows you. it's so few sitting down with so many women and men without food and medicine. and i'm and, and by the end when i'm, when he's also without ammunition from done this, that you, this to me and then we hear your voice was using and just singing and thing off the

fight for your cranes freedom, your country freedom, o'connell, many millions of ukrainians talk you can have stood up to their russian attack has every single day with their courage, anything. it cuts their belief that their right to independent a self determined life of freedom must be defended as there. and it is a powerful force leaving these men and women really fear for their lives every day . they fear for their loved ones, but they also fight too long for their country and their freedom every day. we adored sylvia. when we germans admire the courage, the strength, and the will of the people of ukraine. we stand in solidarity with them via we are helping them to defend themselves. we shall nealon 1000000 the suffering of millions. and we'll meet with the women. they're dead. the biggest, the annette guests is mostly the bit i am. i would like to ask you

a moment to pause with me for a moment. i'm going to remember the victims of fresh air war of aggression against ukraine. they see that lease stunned. una. thank you madam and down the ladies and gentlemen, but some more is back in europe for the 1st time since the 2nd world war. in the midst of europe will be a campaign of conquest, is unfolding. russia denies ukraine. it's right to exist once and begin to destroy ukraine as an independent nation follows the valve ability of borders. these are the sovereignty and self determination of a country. mentioned virgo and human dignity unpaid,

i don't respect for rules and the law does, but i did all this means nothing to put in everything on which her okay. existence in europe, his built said he does not count for anything with him with but it counts for something with germany is not at all, but this will most certainly concerns us. right. has a tech hasn't plunged us back into a time. we thought we had left behind us russia, more of aggression, has reduced the european security or the trashes. um, it is an attack on all the less than that the world has learned from the 2 world wars. it is an attack, it does. it does obviously on everything we to stand for it full and that is the one that can lead make said the ethical shift with this new era. ladies and gentlemen raises new questions. when the a fat for on says we can't find much in the past. we cannot find

anything to wrong from the russians from the last decade for the european union. these have been decades of stability and growth. and this is what shaped our, our thinking in our absence today, we have to think differently, understanding, and we have to act differently. it's 1st easy fun that goes without saying that we are providing financial and economic assistance for this country under attack. you want to kind of know that more than 1000000 ukrainians find refuge here with us. and i am grateful to old chairman's children's everyone in our country fold up for this cuz i'm having support had directions on this war. in such large numbers. they are supporting refugees from ukraine. they helped there and twin twin cities as to cities in ukraine, and that will continue to do so think differently at acting differently in this new era. it also means that we now will be of make decisions and we would have to feel feel, and foster may be considered inconceivable a year, a year ago,

less applying weapons to a theater roar, heavy weapons. and we are providing ukraine with the dog, a v, as in an unprecedented motor, free support. smith goes on with great effort, and in all earnestness that to give you the inside. and of course, each decision goes hand in hand with big, sometimes emotional to babes our room escalate. families are concerned about escalation. one wouldn't to do it, but others would like to speed up decisions. i missed my appointment done, but i know one thing for sure. ladies and gentlemen, the political decision makers here for me is sitting here in front of me, both in the government and in the position. wow, well aware of the great implication that each and every decision have it and they make assessment and take decisions as part of their responsibility for our country, for alliance on food and for ukraine and mine. and i believe unions, us, but they at home deserve our trust and respect for that is toya to all germany.

there goes understood is now also ministry chance, the biggest supporter of ukraine on the european continent. and despite all of our soon to be controversial and sometimes heated debates, i am saddened that we will doggy head boots, have continued to do that for a method or i can tell you that also when we look at what is ahead of us on this for you can rely on germany made to 9 d. so use of nic. the amazon. let's see ya, gazande with them. we have seen it last year. our democracy is strong, much stronger than putin and, and also stronger than most that we are. cells have pap sometimes believe that all pain is counting on when your friends are alive to come in tired of the war at some point and make sure that we will become jaded and look away from the horrors which in the 2nd still fit. once we, of course, there are horrors that are extremely difficult for us to bears. well, ladies and gentlemen that we will not do handled in that fable will not do beauty

in that favor. and i guess i'll resolve and now unit 2 will be needed for a long time to come to support ukraine on it's towards your european union path, which is closely linked to the reconstruction of this war tolan country. and that we know that long as the in the long term, even after this war and the start ukraine will need a strong defense and effective security guarantees. it will rely on these. and also for that it, we are standing by your side ambassador mackey. i know your brain is fighting a foreign country. it's freedom, it's future in europe. the camp is fighting against land crap and occupation him. it is a fighting and the, the for what every country unless all claims for its found under in boston for that . so is it something with and don't have actually required for just and lasting peace in fleeting is in the field?

many people are longing from heath these times in our country around the world, about near nowhere more than in ukraine itself. shine and which simply revolts poor tins, lamb grab a rebel to put him flam. grab and leave people at the mercy of the arbitrary, the actions of their own pay. this is not a real pain, a, an overwhelming majority of the states in the united nations. and we have found yesterday that piece is to be established a just and lasting piece, either constantly because we very much welcome any constructive proposal, bringing us closer to fair and just piece of the that why the global power of china is you would like to play such a constructive role is not, remains to be seen in that is the case then china should talk not only with moscow, but also with kin. if that is the case,

i'm trying to get in china and should join the overwhelming majority of a few under the roof of the united nations on stand on some piece. and if that is the case, to concede that means that together we need to hold high the principles of the united nation, whether a breached on a daily basis. it is in russia that has brutally attacked its neighboring country. it is russia that came sending new troops to the fraud. it is not only the defense support from the west that is prolong it over with us. russia, it is not ukraine, loyal. it's allies that are an obstacle to peace. it is russia put in by couldn't knows very well what needs to be done if he genuinely wanted the war to end windy and you want. this is only when russian truth withdraw on a path towards negotiation can be open. and that is what the united nations resolution of yesterday hold on one, please, and gentlemen, it must be made clear to russia that that cannot be an vacant victory in its

criminal beauty coating one's victory with alma he wanted the victory by all means, but the truth more than anyone who or does matter and killing, or does caput ukraine to be destroyed by bombs is to be devastated and p a children to be a back santa talk, who allows their own soldiers to senselessly bleed to day after day. it for they will never go down in history as a victor until they have already lost. i don't madame ladies and gentlemen. yeah. but you will all have seen the, the photograph, photo gallery in the gallery, when your aunt at this room between my, the and of warner ruins, i'm flat and hockey minus houses and the ruins of a house in the dunbar was on which ones was home to the people who lived there kalina a little boy at his mother's grave into chap on the envelope. oh,

let's do it. and you might also have seen the last a central photo in this exhibition fact that it portrays a soldier in item door and available jobs on near her son. and it was his arms around her woman, the bones. and i'm for the chair, then let him play. glad to see that the other one is alive, should they feel exhausted? flight but liberated the freedom here. here blitz there to an organ. but here we can catch a brief glimpse of peace that's been and i hope that we will soon be the same many pictures like this one. thank you very much. you're watching dw news. this is pub over lillius taking over from my colleague sarah cali, where at the german president frank about her stein maya has just spoken nad at

bellevue palace here in berlin air where they are commemorating ad. there's a ceremony to mark that air awful one year anniversary of russia's war in ukraine. he was speaking in front of many members of the german parliament to him and of the german government, including the chancellor, olaf sholtes, and the ukrainian ambassador to germany. ok, we're actually now going to cross over 2 and listening to the ukranian president followed him as a landscape as to indicates turned into something that needs to be fought for. diplomacy did not work. the existing security architecture of the word failed. the old european hope that economic relations could stop russian tanks did not work. oh, but something did work indeed. unity, the unity of ukraine, germany and the free world as

a whole and the resolve the resolve to defend the foundations of our co existence on ukrainian soil. we are fighting for something without which you, dear friends, could not father men and visit your own life at security, basic security, freedom and laws, human dignity, and the right of each. and every human being and each community to be respected. the blessing to live in a family and the opportunity to, to dream of as a safe and secure future for their own children. it's the simple thing to be in the green 1877 ukrainian cities and villages are denied of this opportunity. the russian invaders, 12 more and more of the destinies of millions in our city that was invaded occupied by russians in my vehicle. there are no and tactics,

buildings anymore. brush added everything to kill every one there. we almost had one and a half a 1000000 people living and mother you pull money, you pull is destroyed up to 90 percent. the remain the ruins of buildings that were burned down and destroyed by russians are being just and done. away with the rubble is, is done away with, and these ruins are turned into rubble. that is, to be used for the construction of new road. we need to do everything in our power to do it, to not allow russia to occupy your crane and our neighbors and turn our cities into rubble. do we have the resolve and the power? yes, we are indeed to do so we're in unity. reese, stand to get a we are capable to,

i'm and the russian aggression this years. from the very beginning, the 1st few minutes of the russian invasion, germany stood by our side. germany helps us to protect crane from russian. terra and germany will be on our side on the day of victor in a day of freedom. mean, germany will stand by our side when we rescue our cities from russian terror. mister president, mr. chance the german people today now is the time a movie to restore peace with our courage and with our weapons and to a show the security for all. no one will attack us any more. no one will turn freedom in. he knows that the free world is resolved enough to defend

freedom. no one will little repeat the 24th of february last year. if you knows that on the whole of charity of your frame, there is no more aggressor, no more occupier. we can make sure that this happens together with you together with every one round, the world who value a life. who juggles? i thank you for your support. i thank you for standing by our side this past year. thank you mr. federal president. thank you all, love for your confidence and trust in ukraine, in our citizens, and in our shared values of a free united and peaceful year out of order as us will border glory to those who fight for freedom and flava ukraine, our glory to ukraine. all right,

this is detail new news we've just heard there from the ukrainian president of volunteers and, and steven was addressing air germany and he had a very clear message for all those are senior members of the german government under german president who were gathered at the in bellevue palace here in berlin, and he said a thank you to germany. he said, thank you for your support and your confidence and said that germany has stood by ukraine side. and he posed the question, do we have the resolve to defeat at the russian forces? he said, yes, we are capable. and what we're going to do now is we're going to go over to my colleague at bellevue palace here in berlin. date of you political correspondent hands plant who has been standing by patiently force in the cold and listening to add the german president, frank voter shy. my and the ukranian president avalon ramirez, the landscape hands. you follow the speech at tell us your thoughts on their both

the german president and there and also the ukranian president savanski. well, i think what's noticeable in the way of conflict, i find my at the german president speaks about the situation in ukraine is the very emotional and personal manner that he chose in the palace. behind me, there is an exhibition of photographs from ukraine showing the suffering of the ukrainian people. frank, by the time by himself, spoke about his visit to ukraine and having seen a particular village that was largely destroyed by ukraine, a village of no military significance. he spoke very emotionally, also to the ukrainian people in expressing his support in germany, support for their attempt to defend their freedom for the emotional way that he speaks is in contrast to some of the statements you often see. for instance, from the german chancellor, all of charlotte who was also in attendance. the whole event here today is at

the highest possible level of german support for ukraine in terms of protocol in terms of symbolism, as the ukranian flag in the air behind me in front of the palace, the seat of the president. there are all the top representatives of the german state in attendance, including the president of parliament and the president of both chambers of parliament, i should say, and all of shots the chancellor as well. so all of this is an extremely strong expression of german solidarity and german support for ukraine. tell us that lensky was a, go ahead, i was going to ask you about the lens. can you just started? there is indeed a zalinski speech as well. so i think it showed that the strength of this relationship between germany and ukraine, which one has to say,

did not start off. well, somewhere around a year ago when germany was very hesitant initially about what to do exactly in supporting ukraine. and in fact, there was that occasion when found quite a stay my of the president was going to go to ukraine, going to go to kia and then was dis invited at very short notice which caused quite a disturbance in the relationship between the 2 countries. and in between the 2 presidents, i think that disturbance appears now to have been overcome. and there is a close coordination or close relationship between the 2 countries and the presence . and that was evident from the lensky speeds. the lensky in his speech did say that piece would only be come through defense through weapons deliveries in a sense through how should we say through fighting and.