The Federal Foreign Minister held talks with the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in Kiev. “Diplomacy is the only viable way,” she said there.
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Berlin, Brussels Annalena Baerbock lays red roses in the morning in the center of Kiev at the bronze memorial of the “Heavenly Hundreds”. The green one wears a gray coat, a gray face mask. There is not much left of the lightness that the Foreign Minister once made her trademark.
It is a symbolic place: in 2014, insurgents on Maidan Square drove the pro-Russian leadership out of office with weeks of mass protests. There were more than a hundred dead at that time. The uprising represents the turn of the Ukrainian people towards Europe. Even with the mediation of Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD), pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych finally stopped using violence.
Today, almost eight years later, Ukraine is once again experiencing an existential crisis – threatened by the deployment of 100,000 Russian soldiers at the border. Annalena Baerbock, who is traveling to Moscow on Tuesday, wants to help.
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