(10 Jan 2023)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kharkiv, Ukraine - 10 January 2023
1. Various exteriors of Kharkiv train station
2. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, arriving for briefing, joins Dmytro Kuleba, Ukrainian Foreign Minister
3. Baerbock speaking
4. SOUNDBITE (German) Annalena Baerbock, German Foreign Minister:
“And over the past 10 months, together with our partners, we have made efforts to ensure that there are supplies of weapons for both air defence and the Gepards (self-propelled anti-aircraft guns). Now the last decision is the Marder IFVs (Infantry Fighting Vehicles). Now I can say that we will continue this partnership of those deliveries, and I am today here to see with my own eyes how important this assistance is, and to continue it in the most useful way for Ukraine.”
5. Cutaway of media
6. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Dmytro Kuleba, Ukrainian Foreign Minister:
“I have no doubt that Ukraine will receive more German Gepard tanks. Moreover, I think that the German government also deeply understands that this decision will be made and the tanks will be transferred to Ukraine.”
7. Wide of briefing underway
8. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Dmytro Kuleba, Ukrainian Foreign Minister:
“In the absence of this decision right now, the only thing that upsets me is that the longer this decision takes, the more people will die due to the lack of necessary tanks in our army.”
9. Various of briefing underway
10. Various of Baerbock leaving, boarding train
11. Wide of train leaving
STORYLINE:
While thankful for the support already received, Ukraine's foreign minister on Tuesday expressed frustration with the pace of supply of armoured vehicles from Germany.
Regarding further shipments “...the only thing that upsets me is that the longer this decision takes, the more people will die due to the lack of necessary tanks in our army,” said Dmytro Kuleba.
Kuleba was speaking in Kharkiv alongside his German counterpart, Annalena Baerbock.
Kharkiv is just 42 kilometres (about 25 miles) from the Russian border. This was the first visit of a European minister of the seniority of Baerbock to the east of Ukraine.
In Kharkiv, she was shown the most devastated area on the outskirts of the city - northern Saltivka - where she saw destroyed hospitals, schools, residential buildings and energy infrastructure facilities.
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