Baerbock announces EUR 100M in “winter aid” to Ukraine

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said this on the sidelines of the 5th conference of support for Mdova in Chisinau, Rheinische Post reports.

"In Ukraine, due to the destroyed infrastructure, there is not enough energy, and therefore electricity, water, and heat. Moscow seeks to make the life of pele in Ukraine as terrible as possible," she said.

Support for Ukraine is "also support for Mdova and Eurean democracy in general," added the minister.

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Baerbock said that Russian leader Putin also wanted to destroy Mdova. "He achieved the posite. Currently, Mdova, like Ukraine, is a candidate for EU membership. Now we are talking about the further stabilization of the country… The biggest concern of local residents is that, should Ukraine fall, Mdova would be next," the diplomat emphasized.

The head of the German Foreign Ministry spoke with the President of Mdova, Maia Sandu. In the afternoon, the minister plans to visit the center of strategic communication and fight against disinformation and praganda in Chisinau. As journalists in Berlin were td, a bilateral agreement on coeration in the cyber area is set to be signed.

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As reported, 40 days into the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, in April 2022, Germany together with its partners – France and Romania – initiated the Mdova Platform.

The fifth conference of the Partnership Platform for Mdova is being held in Chisinau on September 17. A meeting of the foreign ministers of the Weimar Triangle will also take place on its sidelines.